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The TRUE STORY of “Ghost Photography” | William Mumler | CIVIL WAR MYSTERIES
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In 1861 an amateur photographer named William Mumler took a self-portrait. Later, when he developed the photograph he was astonished to find, that he was not the only person visible in the portrait.Sitting in the chair next to him, was the hazy, translucent figure of his cousin who had died twelve years earlier.
SOURCES:
VOX VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsx6xqi0vzU
https://www.history.com/news/spirit-photography-civil-war-william-mumler
The Getty Museum’s collection of Mumler’s spirit photographs:
https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/person/104VG5
Meet Mr. Mumler, The Man Who 'Captured' Lincoln's Ghost On Camera: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smiths...
Archive of “Banner of Light” and other Spiritualist newspapers:
http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/banner_of_light/index.html
Mr. Mumler And The Great Spirit Photography Craze Of The 1860s: https://www.weirdhistorian.com/mumler/
Helen F. Stuart and Hannah Frances Green: The Original Spirit Photographer, by Felicity T.C. Hamer:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03087298.2018.1498491