The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost

The Apparitionists: 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.

In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake…

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