An edition of The apparitionists (2017)
The apparitionists
a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost
By Peter Manseau
Publish Date
2017
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
eng
Pages
335
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.
subjects: Photographers, Psychics, Spirit photography, Biography, History, Photographers, biography, New York Times reviewed, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), PHOTOGRAPHY / History, Mumler, William H, Photographers -- United States -- Biography, Psychics -- United States -- Biography, Spirit photography -- United States -- History -- 19th century
People: William H. Mumler
Places: United States
Times: 19th century