Cover of The apparitionists

The apparitionists

by Peter Manseau

2017 335 pages eng

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 affluen…

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