The apparitionists : a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost
(Book)
Author
Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xi, 335 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Status
Main Library - Adult
133.9 Man
1 available
133.9 Man
1 available
Southside - Adult
133.9 Man
1 available
133.9 Man
1 available
Description
Loading Description...
Also in this Series
Checking series information...
Copies
Location | Call Number | Status |
---|---|---|
Main Library - Adult | 133.9 Man | On Shelf |
Southside - Adult | 133.9 Man | On Shelf |
More Details
Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017].
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-335).
Description
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.
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.