The apparitionists : a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost
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The apparitionists : a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost
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- The apparitionists : a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost
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- a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter Manseau
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "A story of faith and fraud in post?Civil War America, told through the lens of a photographer who claimed he could capture images of the dead. In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized America?s 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, including Mary Todd Lincoln, who arrived at his studio in disguise amidst rumors of s?ances in the White House. 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. It took a circus-like trial of Mumler on fraud charges, starring P. T. Barnum for the prosecution, to expose a fault line of doubt and manipulation. And even then, the judge sided with the defense?nobody ever solved the mystery of his spirit photography. This forgotten puzzle offers a vivid snapshot of America at a crossroads in its history, a nation in thrall to new technology while clinging desperately to belief."--Amazon.com
- Biography type
- individual biography
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- DLC
- Dewey number
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- 133.9/2
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- BF1027.M86
- LC item number
- M36 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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