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The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost
The Apparitionists A Tale of Phantoms Fraud Photography and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost
Author: Peter Manseau
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 ghost...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780544745971
ISBN-10: 0544745973
Publication Date: 10/10/2017
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Book Type: Hardcover
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