The apparitionists: a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
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xi, 335 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized Americas imagination. A zspirit photographer,y 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-335).
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In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized Americas imagination. A zspirit photographer,y 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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Manseau, P. (2017). The apparitionists: a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Manseau, Peter. 2017. The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Manseau, Peter, The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
MLA Citation (style guide)Manseau, Peter. The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
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