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Author Archives: Paige Gibbons Backus
The Rise of Spirit Photography
As we near Halloween, thoughts of ghosts and spirits often come to the minds of visitors at historic places. I have recently started getting questions about ghosts, and this got me thinking about spirits “seen” by people in the 19th … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian, Photography
Tagged Boston, Carte-de-visites, Civil War, Ghosts, Halloween, Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln, Mumler, Photography, Spirit Photography, Spiritualism
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Limb Pit at Manassas National Battlefield Continues to Show the Horrors of Civil War Medicine
After over 150 years, the Civil War is still one of the mostly widely studied historical moments in history with new discoveries continuously being made. Recently one of these extraordinary finds took place while workers were digging at a construction … Continue reading
