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The apparitionists : a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost

text The apparitionists : a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost

Summary
In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized Americas imagination. A "spirit photographer," William Mumler took portrait photographs that featured the ghostly presence of a lost loved one alongside th... Read more
Contents
Part I: The black art -- Procure the remedy at once and be well -- Love and painting are quarrelsome companions -- Ties which death itself could not loose -- A palace for the Sun -- I thought nobody would be damaged much -- A lounging, listless ma... Read more
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xi, 335 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 921 MUMLER, WILLIAM MAN in Adult Non-fiction Available

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