296 “Resolved, That the Committee”: “February 13, 1869,” Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, Being the Third Session of the Fortieth Congress, 256.
296 “the pioneer of the photographic art”: New York World, November 5, 1887.
297 “the relation of the Bible”: “Editor’s Literary Record,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 63, no. 375 (August 1881), 471.
298 “Here’s your flower!”: Joseph M. Wilson, A Eulogy on the Life and Character of Alexander Gardner (Washington, DC: R. Beresford, 1883), 18.
298 “From all who visited her”: Friend of Progress, February 1865.
298 Gurney’s final photos of Lincoln: Life, September 15, 1952.
299 “What Barnum was to the circus”: New York Times, December 24, 1882.
299 “To further mark appreciation”: “The Laetare Medal.”
300 “photographic portraits of Abraham”: Chicago Tribune, August 2, 1874.
300 William Guay in Halifax: Lawrence (Kansas) Daily Journal, February 3, 1883.
300 “to aid by all lawful means”: “Prevention of Cruelty to Children,” Arthur’s Illustrated Home Magazine 43 (1875), 141.
301 dismemberment, drawing and quartering: See Elbridge Gerry, “Capital Punishment by Electricity,” North American Review 149, 321–25.
301 “At the urgent solicitations” and quotes following: Parker and Day, Biography of Mrs. J. H. Conant, 226–27.
29. THE MUMLER PROCESS
305 “a clairvoyant remedy”: Port Jervis Evening Gazette, December 29, 1870.
305 “One of the most powerful imparters”: undated Boston Globe report, quoted in Mumler advertisement in Cambridge Chronicle 49, no. 2 (January 1894), 13.
306 “Mumler process”: Photographic Times, June 1884, 304.
306 “‘Punch’ depends”: Boston Post, January 11, 1879.
306 “Nearly all the pictures”: Facts: A Monthly Magazine, June 1886, 158.
307 “MR. WILLIAM H. MUMLER, a well-known inventor”: Photographic Times, June 1884, 304.
About the Author
PETER MANSEAU is the author of the nonfiction books Vows, Rag and Bone, and One Nation, Under Gods, and the novel Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter, a winner of the National Jewish Book Award. He is the first curator of religion at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. He lives in Annapolis, Maryland.
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