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Sources:
- Cadwallader, Jen. “Spirit Photography Victorian Culture of Mourning.” Modern Language Studies 37, no. 2 (Winter, 2008): 8-31.
- Conan Doyle, Arthur. A History of Spiritualism. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1926.
- Cortés-Rocca, Paola. “Ghost in the Machine: Photographs of Specters in the Nineteenth Century.” Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal 38, no. 1 (March 2005): 151-168.
- Douris, Steele Alexandra. Spirits, Seers & Seances: Victorian Spiritualism, Magic, & the Supernatural. Woodbury: Llewellyn Publications, 2023.
- Ferris, Alison. “Disembodied Spirits: Spirit Photography and Rachel Whiteread’s ‘Ghost’.” Art Journal 62, no. 3 (Autumn, 2003): 44-55.
- Kaplan, Louis. The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
- Kaplan, Louis. “Where the Paranoid Meets the Paranormal: Speculations on Spirit Photography.” Art Journal 62, no. 3 (Autumn 2003): 18-29.
- Manseau, Peter. The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln’s Ghost. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
- Schoonover, Karl. “Ectoplasms, Evanescence, and Photography.” Art Journal 62, no. 3 (Autumn 2003): 30-43.
- Traill, Taylor. The Veil Lifted: Modern Developments in Spirit Photography. London: Whittaker & Co., 1894.
- West, Nancy. “Camera Fiends: Early Photography, Death, and the Supernatural.” The Centennial Review 40, no. 1 (Winter 1996): 170-206.
Media Links:
- Vox – The (Mostly) True Story of “Ghost Photography”
- Caitlin Doughty – 19th-Century Spirit Photography Grift
- V&A – A Brief History of Ghosts and Spirit Photography
- Scrapbook from 1869 Trial of The People v. William H. Mumler
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Happy listening!
-Lindsay
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