The Resource The apparitionists : a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost, Peter Manseau
The apparitionists : a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost, Peter Manseau
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 335 pages
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780544745971
- Label
- The apparitionists : a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost
- Title
- The apparitionists
- Title remainder
- a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter Manseau
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Manseau, Peter
- Dewey number
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- 133.9/2
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- BF1027.M86
- LC item number
- M36 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Mumler, William H
- Photographers
- Psychics
- Spirit photography
- Photographers
- Psychics
- Spirit photography
- United States
- Label
- The apparitionists : a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost, Peter Manseau
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-335)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- ocn953710097
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xi, 335 pages
- Isbn
- 9780544745971
- Lccn
- 2017018074
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) o953710097
- (OCoLC)953710097
- (Sirsi) b1500107
- Label
- The apparitionists : a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost, Peter Manseau
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-335)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- ocn953710097
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xi, 335 pages
- Isbn
- 9780544745971
- Lccn
- 2017018074
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o953710097
- (OCoLC)953710097
- (Sirsi) b1500107
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