Me and myself, late 1880s
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In 1869, Boston photographer William H. Mumler was taken to court for depicting what he claimed were the spirits of the dead. But a few years later, Americans were no longer surprised or bewildered by such experiments with photographic truth. One popular deception was to photograph someone multiple times in the same setting.
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Me and myself, late 1880s
Albumen silver print
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
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