The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost
- ISBN-10
- 0544745973
- ISBN-13
- 9780544745971
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Peter Manseau
Description
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 the living subject. Mumler was a sensation: The affluent and influential came calling. Peter Manseau brilliantly captures a nation wracked with grief and hungry for proof of the existence of ghosts and for contact with their dead husbands and sons.
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