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The Apparitionists : A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost by Peter Manseau is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p> <b>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.</b> <br> 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 ghostly presence of a lost loved one alongside the living subject. Mumler was a sensation: The affluent and influential came calling, includin
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Peter Manseau
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9782017018070
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, True Crime, Body Mind & Spirit
- Rating
- 3.53 / 5 (33 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14