Here's another type of ghost in the scanning machine, presented in honor of Gordon Meyer.  This image recalls the double-exposure spirit photography of the 19th century.  This particular ghost materialized in the Google Books scan of Wilfred Montressor: or, The Secret Order of the Seven: A Romance of Life in the New York Metropolis (1865).  We're especially tickled by the ghost of the huge letter Y.

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Portrait from Memoir of George Edmund Street.

In this haunting, the ghost appears twice, once in a gray shadow and once in a blue mist.

To understand what's going on here, see The Ghost in the [Scanning] Machine.

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Portrait from Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams.

“In Statuary Hall, filled with sculptures of prominent statesmen of the past, the luminous ghost of John Quincy Adams has been seen by Capitol staff.” —Historic Haunted America

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Portrait from Memoir of William Ellery Channing.

This intriguing ghost portrait both mirrors and brings color to the halo of the original.

To understand what's going on here, see The Ghost in the [Scanning] Machine.

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Portrait from Biography of Ephraim McDowell.

“Something like a ghostly reproduction of him.” —Ignacio Padilla, Antipodes

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Portrait from A Memoir of Honoré de Balzac.

“We term sleep a death; and yet it is waking that kills us.” —Sir Thomas Browne

To understand what's going on here, see The Ghost in the [Scanning] Machine.

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Portrait from Autobiography of Amos Kendall.

Kendall’s striped aura is courtesy of Google’s scanning machine.

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Portrait from The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive Writings.

“The translucent ghost is becoming shabby.” —Penelope Shuttle, The Mirror of the Giant

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Portrait from The Life of Edwin Forrest.

“He grew a mustache, and was in every way prepared to take his departure.” —The Reformatory Press

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Portrait from Memoir of Rachel Hicks.

Note that the Rachel Hicks appears more jovial in spectral form.

To understand what's going on here, see The Ghost in the [Scanning] Machine.

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Portrait from The Life of Sir Walter Scott.

“His face was grim in the ghostly blue light.” —P. J. Parrish

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Portrait from Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel.

It’s not every day we meet a spirit who has been transferred to the University of Washington library.

To understand what's going on here, see The Ghost in the [Scanning] Machine.

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Portrait from Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke.

“A poet’s ghost is the only one that survives for his fellow-mortals, after his bones are in the dust.” —Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home

To understand what's going on here, see The Ghost in the [Scanning] Machine.

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Portrait of Queen Anne and her son William from Where Ghosts Walk: The Haunts of Familiar Characters in History and Literature.

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Portrait from Memoir of the Late Thomas Scatcherd.

“He has just enough life to create a presence, a face in the background of the story that is like an image on the other side of the coin.” —Fondazione Federico Fellini

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Portrait from Melba: A Biography.

“In . . . a face half-clear and half-blurry, he sees the blue reflection of the ghost.” —Charles L. Grant, Shadows 8

To understand what's going on here, see The Ghost in the [Scanning] Machine.

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Portrait from Life of P. T. Barnum.

“The ghost of Barnum was not easily exorcised.” —George Lewis Levine, Constructions of the Self

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Frontispiece from The Eagle’s Shadow.

Fashionistas will note that hemlines are shorter on the Other Side.  To understand what's going on here, see The Ghost in the [Scanning] Machine.

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Portrait from Memoir of the Rev. John James Weitbrecht.

“I couldn’t look into his face; I knew instinctively that one doesn’t look in the face of a Spirit.” —W. Jackson Rushing

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Portrait from The Autobiography of William Jerdan.

In this haunting, the ghost of “the deeply lamented” L.E.L. appears no fewer than eight times, courtesy of the scanners at Google Books.  To understand what's going on here, see The Ghost in the [Scanning] Machine.