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Paperback The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer Book

ISBN: 0816651574

ISBN13: 9780816651573

The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer

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The story of the birth of spirit photography and the controversy surrounding its discovery

In the 1860s, William Mumler photographed ghosts--or so he claimed. Faint images of the dearly departed lurked in the background with the living, like his well-known photo of the recently assassinated Abraham Lincoln comforting Mary Todd. The practice came to be known as spirit photography, and some believed Mumler was channeling the dead...

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