The apparitionists, a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost, Peter Manseau
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The apparitionists, a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost, Peter Manseau
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-335)
resource.biographical
individual biography
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The apparitionists
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
953710097
Responsibility statement
Peter Manseau
Sub title
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 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
Table Of 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 madhouse -- My God! Is it possible? -- She really is a wonderful whistler -- No shadow of trickery -- A craving for light -- Part II: Philosophical instruments -- The message department -- A big head full of ideas -- Chair and all -- Did you ever dream of some lost friend? -- War against wrong -- Whose bones lie bleaching -- Part III: Humbugged -- All is gone and nothing saved -- A favorite haunt of apparitions -- The spirits do not like a throng -- The tenderest sympathies of human nature -- Weep, weep, my eyes -- Are you a spiritualist in any degree? -- An old, moth-eaten cloak -- By supernatural means -- Figura vaporosa -- They paid their money, and they had their choice -- Those mortals gifted with the power of seeing -- Part IV: Image and afterlife -- Calm assurance of a happy future -- The Mumler process
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- PHOTOGRAPHY / History
- Biographies
- Psychics
- Biography
- Spirit photography
- History
- Psychics -- United States -- Biography
- HISTORY / Social History
- 1800-1899
- Mumler, William H
- Photographers
- United States
- HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- Spirit photography -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Photographers -- United States -- Biography
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- PHOTOGRAPHY / History
- Biographies
- Psychics
- Biography
- Spirit photography
- History
- Psychics -- United States -- Biography
- HISTORY / Social History
- 1800-1899
- Mumler, William H
- Photographers
- United States
- HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- Spirit photography -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Photographers -- United States -- Biography
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