Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library

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

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

individual biography

index present

non fiction

The apparitionists

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985966877

Peter Manseau

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

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

Front Cover; Front Flap; Front Matter; Half Title; Other Books by this Author; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Author's Note; Epigraph; Photograph; Prologue; Part I: THE BLACK ART; 1. Procure the Remedy at Once and Be Well; 2. Love and Painting Are Quarrelsome Companions; 3. Ties Which Death Itself Could Not Loose; 4. A Palace for the Sun; 5. I Thought Nobody Would Be Damaged Much; 6. A Lounging, Listless Madhouse; 7. My God! Is It Possible?; 8. She Really Is a Wonderful Whistler; 9. No Shadow of Trickery; 10. A Craving for LightPart II: PHILOSOPHICAL INSTRUMENTS11. The Message Department; 12. A Big Head Full of Ideas; 13. Chair and All; 14. Did You Ever Dream of Some Lost Friend?; 15. War Against Wrong; 16. Whose Bones Lie Bleaching; Part III: HUMBUGGED; 17. All Is Gone and Nothing Saved; 18. A Favorite Haunt of Apparitions; 19. The Spirits Do Not Like a Throng; 20. The Tenderest Sympathies of Human Nature; 21. Weep, Weep, My Eyes; 22. Are You a Spiritualist in Any Degree?; 23. An Old, Moth-Eaten Cloak; 24. By Supernatural Means; 25. Figura Vaporosa; 26. They Paid Their Money, and They Had Their Choice27. Those Mortals Gifted with the Power of SeeingPart IV: IMAGE AND AFTERLIFE; 28. Calm Assurance of a Happy Future; 29. The Mumler Process; Back Matter; Acknowledgments; Notes and Sources; Back Flap; Back Cover; Spine