The first fairy photograph, featured in Conan Doyle’s The Coming of the Fairies (1922).

Featured on PDR in the essay Sir Arthur and the Fairies

In the spring of 1920, at the beginning of a growing fascination with spiritualism brought on by the death of his son and brother in WWI, Arthur Conan Doyle took up the case of the Cottingley Fairies. Mary Losure explores how the creator of Sherlock Holmes became convinced that the 'fairy photographs' taken by two girls from Yorkshire were real.

The First Fairy Photograph

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Date

1922

From

The Coming of the Fairies


Underlying Rights

Public Domain Worldwide

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