The apparitionists
About this book
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.
Subjects
- biography
- history
- history / social history
- history / united states / civil war period (1850-1877)
- mumler, william h
- new york times reviewed
- photographers
- photographers, biography
- photographers -- united states -- biography
- photography / history
- psychics
- psychics -- united states -- biography
- spirit photography
- spirit photography -- united states -- history -- 19th century