DENVER PHOTOGRAPHY TOUR FIELD GUIDE
Images from the Other Side — Making Ghosts with Historic Photographic Tricks at the Molly Brown House
A 1.5-hour Historic Denver Tours workshop at the Molly Brown House Museum that demonstrates pre-exposing, double-exposing and compositing techniques used to create eerie, ghostlike figures.
Images from the Other Side — Making Ghosts with Historic Photographic Tricks at the Molly Brown House.
Ghosts have been captured on film at the Molly Brown House Museum—or at least, the house is the setting for a short, focused workshop that uncovers the photographic tricks behind those claims. Led by Historic Denver Tours, the session traces how photographers historically used methods such as pre-exposing, double-exposing and compositing to produce otherworldly figures and then teaches those same techniques in a hands-on format.
Highlights
Outing Highlights
Molly Brown House Museum
The program centers on the Molly Brown House Museum, the site tied to stories and images of apparitions and the historical context for photographic ‘spirit’ pictures.
Historical photographic tricks
Participants learn the practical mechanics behind pre-exposing, double-exposing and compositing—methods long used to produce ghostlike images and visual hoaxes.
From curiosity to craft
The session combines skepticism and technique: uncover the secrets behind alleged spirit photographs and apply the same processes to create eerie, otherworldly figures of the past.
What the day feels like
What the workshop feels like
This is a compact, museum-centered workshop that pairs explanation with demonstration. Over the course of the 1.5-hour session you investigate historical claims of spirit imagery at the Molly Brown House and are shown how photographers used optical and darkroom tactics—pre-exposing, double-exposing and compositing—to fabricate ghostly subjects.
THE VENUE
Molly Brown House Museum
The program centers on the Molly Brown House Museum, the site tied to stories and images of apparitions and the historical context for photographic ‘spirit’ pictures.
THE TECHNIQUE
Historical photographic tricks
Participants learn the practical mechanics behind pre-exposing, double-exposing and compositing—methods long used to produce ghostlike images and visual hoaxes.
THE PURPOSE
From curiosity to craft
The session combines skepticism and technique: uncover the secrets behind alleged spirit photographs and apply the same processes to create eerie, otherworldly figures of the past.
Suitability
Who it's for
Who this workshop suits—and where the supplied material is silent.
Practical planner
Details to review before reserving
The workshop runs for 1.5 hours.
The listed meeting location is 1340 Pennsylvania St, Denver, CO 80203.
No specific gear list was provided in the supplied material.
The experience is presented by Historic Denver Tours.
Review cancellation policies before reserving.
Frequently asked questions
Planning Your Outing
How long is the workshop?
The experience lasts 1.5 hours.
Where do participants meet?
The meeting location is 1340 Pennsylvania St, Denver, CO 80203.
What will I learn during the session?
The workshop covers historical photographic methods—pre-exposing, double-exposing and compositing—and examines how those techniques produced ghostlike images at the Molly Brown House Museum.
Who runs the workshop?
The event is offered by Historic Denver Tours.
Are there actual ghost photographs at the Molly Brown House Museum?
The supplied material states that ghosts have been captured on film at the Molly Brown House Museum, and frames that claim within a workshop investigating photographic techniques and hoaxes.
Will I create my own ghostlike images?
The session teaches and demonstrates pre-exposing, double-exposing and compositing so participants learn how such ghostly figures are created.