| Description |
xi, 335 pages : photographs ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Part I: The black art -- Procure the remedy at once and be well -- Love and painting are quarrelsome companions -- Ties which death itself could not loose -- A palace for the Sun -- I thought nobody would be damaged much -- A lounging, listless madhouse -- My God! Is it possible? -- She really is a wonderful whistler -- No shadow of trickery -- A craving for light -- Part II: Philosophical instruments -- The message department -- A big head full of ideas -- Chair and all -- Did you ever dream of some lost friend? -- War against wrong -- Whose bones lie bleaching -- Part III: Humbugged -- All is gone and nothing saved -- A favorite haunt of apparitions -- The spirits do not like a throng -- The tenderest sympathies of human nature -- Weep, weep, my eyes -- Are you a spiritualist in any degree? -- An old, moth-eaten cloak -- By supernatural means -- Figura vaporosa -- They paid their money, and they had their choice -- Those mortals gifted with the power of seeing -- Part IV: Image and afterlife -- Calm assurance of a happy future -- The Mumler process. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Mumler, William H.
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| Subject(S) |
Photographers -- United States -- Biography.
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Psychics -- United States -- Biography.
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Spirit photography -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Photographers.
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Psychics.
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Spirit photography.
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Biographies.
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History.
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| ISBN |
9780544745971 (hardcover) |
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0544745973 (hardcover) |
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