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William Mumler and Spirit Photography in the 19th century

7/8/2023

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Sepia photograph of Mary Todd Lincoln as an older woman appearing to have a ghost who looks like Abraham Lincoln standing behind her
Mary Todd Lincoln with the ghost of Abraham Lincoln, c. 1872.
The 19th-century was on the cutting edge of some new technology and a new religious movement, and they intersected in some interesting – and surprising – ways. Find out how spirit photography became A Thing and how William Mumler “captured” the ghost of Abraham Lincoln in this week’s episode of Footnoting History. 

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Further Reading
James Coates, Ph.D., F.A.S., Photographing the Invisible: Practical Studies in Spirit Photography, Spirit Portraiture, and other Rare but Allied Phenomena. L. N. Fowler & Co., (1911).
 
Louis Kaplan, The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer. University of Minnesota Press, (2008).
 
Peter Manseau, The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln’s Ghost. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (2017).
 
Jolly Martyn, “Faces of the Living Dead [Spirit Photography was Popular after World War I],” Photofile 66 (2002): 35-39.
 
William Mumler, The Personal Experiences of William H. Mumler of Spirit-Photography, written by himself. Colby and Rich, (1875).

Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)
In memory of Admiral Nelson. Footnoting History's Unofficial Mascot. Photograph of Nelson, a black French bulldog, sitting in front of a podcast recording set up with Kristin's h ands holding headphones on his head
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Raymond
7/8/2023 05:19:21 pm

The Admiral lives on in our memories.

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