The Story of Elsa and Francis

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Elsa said one night, we're getting ready for bed. I've been thinking, kids, she was real cinema girl with kills. She says, what about if I draw some fairies and cut them out in cardboard? We'll stick them up in the grass and see her uncle and dad who led this camera and would take a photo. And if they see them, they'll have to believe it, I'll stop all this joking. Francis had a copy of Princess Mary's gift book. There is a poem by Alfred Nois called a spell for a fairy with illustrations by Claud A. Sheperson. It was these figures that Elsie based the fairies for the first photograph she

In the summer of 1917, 16-year-old Elsie Wright took a photograph of her 9-year-old cousin, Frances Griffiths. It was the first photograph she’d ever taken — and it became the source of a mystery that lasted for most of the 20th century.

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