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Jule Eisenbud collection on Ted Serios and thoughtographic photography

The papers of Jule Eisenbud, a psychiatrist, author, and researcher who lived from 1908-1999, were donated to UMBC (University of Maryland Baltimore County) in 2002. A large component of the collection documents Eisenbud's work with Ted Serios, a Chicago bellhop who claimed to be able to produce "thoughtographs," photographic images generated from his thoughts. Eisenbud wrote a book about Serios, The World of Ted Serios, that was published by William Morrow & Company in 1967. UMBC has digitized over 250 items from the Eisenbud collection and made them available online. Most of the images date from the mid-1960s, and show Serios' face, although there are also ghostly views of buildings. Many were made during experiments conducted at the Colorado Psychopathic Hospital in an attempt to measure Serios' paranormal abilities. More information about the collection is available in the finding aid and the web gallery created for the the 2011 exhibit, Psychic Projections/Photographic Impressions: Paranormal Photographs from the Jule Eisenbud Collection on Ted Serios.
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March 24th, 2017
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March 24th, 2017 at 9:01am
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