The apparitionists

a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost

"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"--Provided by publisher.

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