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Scans matching “Perry”11 scans

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  Portrait of Thomas Morton, 1637, St John's College. Scan

  Attributed to Simon Luttichuys ·from The Boy of Bilson: William Perry's Faked Possession, Staffordshire, 1620 (1620)
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  William Hogarth, Enthusiasm Delineated (engraved 1761, unpublished), the earlier state of the same plate. Scan

  William Hogarth; British Museum ·from The Boy of Bilson: William Perry's Faked Possession, Staffordshire, 1620 (1620)
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  Thomas Morton, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, who exposed the fraud. Scan

  Attributed to Simon Luttichuys; St John's College, Cambridge ·from The Boy of Bilson: William Perry's Faked Possession, Staffordshire, 1620 (1620)
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  William Hogarth, Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism (1762). A shoeblack vomiting hobnails and iron staples is often identified as the Boy of Bilston. Scan

  William Hogarth; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891 ·from The Boy of Bilson: William Perry's Faked Possession, Staffordshire, 1620 (1620)

  CREDULITY, SUPERSTITION and FANATICISM. AMEDLEY. Believe not every Spirit, but try the Spirits whether they are of God: because many false Prophets are gone out into the World. Design'd and Engraved by Wm Hogarth. Published as the Act directs March 9th 15th 1762.…

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  Sperry's sketch of the object, from Flying magazine, September 1950 Scan

  Willis T. Sperry / Flying magazine, via Project 1947 ·from Capt. Willis T. Sperry and the American Airlines DC-6 sighting near Mount Vernon, Virginia (1950)
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  Portrait of Capt. Willis T. Sperry Scan

  Project 1947 ·from Capt. Willis T. Sperry and the American Airlines DC-6 sighting near Mount Vernon, Virginia (1950)
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  Fort Worth Star-Telegram negative, "Strange Craft Seen by Pilot Near Capitol," May 31, 1950, connected to Capt. Willis T. Sperry's report Scan

  Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection, UT Arlington Libraries ·from Capt. Willis T. Sperry and the American Airlines DC-6 sighting near Mount Vernon, Virginia (1950)
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  The Commercial Appeal, 22 March 1950, scan 1 Scan

  The Commercial Appeal ·from Chicago & Southern Airlines DC-3 porthole disc, Hazen, Arkansas (1950)

  'IT' LOOKED LIKE THIS This is Capt. Jack Adams' conception of the strange object which he and First Officer G. W. Anderson Jr. saw over Hazen, Ark., Monday night while flying a Chicago & Southern Air Lines DC-3. The drawing represents the bottom of the "saucer," with its lighted port holes. After ma…

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  The Worksop Guardian clipping of 29 October 1965 reporting the Leicester Road sighting. Scan

  Worksop Guardian, 29 Oct 1965, via Patrick Gross ·from The Leicester Road Flying Saucer, Dinnington, 1965 (1965)

  Mum, Come Quick! There's A Flying Saucer! MYSTERY OF THE FLASHING LIGHTS The residents of Leicester Road, Dinnington, are still talking about what they believe to have been a flying saucer seen going over their rooftops last week. Thirty-five-year-old Mrs. Carl Kalus told me the "Workshop Guardian,"…

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  1942 newspaper clipping on the death of Warren Emerson Scan

  via Cassidy Nicholas ·from The Hinsdale House Haunting: the Dandy family on McMahon Road (1970)

  as reade by Bureau en are empera- wenty v p m. Hinsdale School Student Fatally Hurt When Struck By Buzz Saw HINDSALE — Alistair Warren Emerson, sixteen year old Hinndale Central School sophomore, died Wednesday night June 24, 1942 at eleven o'clock in the Cuba Memorial Hospital. Cuba, from a family …

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  Barbara Perry's sketch of the Owlman, with her note that it was seen on 3 July 1976 Scan

  from The Owlman of Mawnan, Cornwall (1976)

  Bordman monster Seven on 3rd July, quite late at night but not quite dark. Red eyes. Blank me up. It was very big with great big wings and black claws. Feathers grey. B. Ferry late July, 1976.…