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1) The apparitionists: a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xi, 335 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"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...
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