{"id":6,"count":5,"description":"Spiritualism, the belief that spirits of the dead could be contacted and were eager to communicate with the living, grew in popularity in the 1840s.  S\u00e9ances were a common form of entertainment, and spirit photography \u2013 photography of spectral entities \u2013 enjoyed a boom in the 19th century.   Mediums were believed to be capable of communicating with the realm of spirits.  Some mediums wrote books  claimed to have been dictated to them by their spirit guides.  Famous 19th century believers in spiritualism included First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and writer Arthur Conan Doyle.","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/all-hallows\/section\/unseenworld\/","name":"Unseen World","slug":"unseenworld","taxonomy":"section","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/all-hallows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/all-hallows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/all-hallows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/section"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/all-hallows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item?section=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}