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Cleveland: The Otis Lithograph Co. , ca. 1926. One-sheet color lithograph depicting Thurston's levitation illusion in a cartoonish style. In performance, Thurston first performed the version of the effect he purchased from Kellar, then finished by covering the floating lady and causing her to float about the stage, and finally "vanish like a fading cloud" ala Servais LeRoy's famous Asrah levitation.. 27 x 40 ". Old fold; A.


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2017-02-04

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Thurston, Howard. Thurston the Great Magician. Cincinnati: Strobridge Litho, ca. 1910. Color lithographed portrait of Thurston just after his assumption of Kellar’s “mantle” of magic. Read more…


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Thurston, Howard. Thurston the Great Magician. [Cincinnati]: [Strobridge], ca. 1900s. Color lithograph portrait of Thurston with imps on his shoulders, apparently trimmed from a poster. Read more…


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Cincinnati, Strobridge Litho., 1914. Color lithographed advertising a transposition illusion from Thurston's show which included a boy, girl, and donkey vanishing and reappearing in several Read more…


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Thurston, Howard. Thurston the Great Magician. Noah’s Vision. Cincinnati, Strobridge Litho., ca. 1910. Eight-sheet (77 x 109”) color lithographed billboard advertising the production illusion from Read more…


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Thurston, Howard. Group of three photographs. One a formal 8 x 10" bust portrait, the other candid full-length snapshots of Thurston in the 1930s (stamped Read more…


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Thurston, Howard. Do the Spirits Come Back? Thurston, the Great Magician. Cleveland: Otis Litho, ca. 1926. One-sheet color lithograph poster depicting Thurston holding a skull Read more…


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Thurston, Howard. Do the Spirits Come Back? Thurston The Great Magician. Cleveland: The Otis Lithograph Co., ca. 1924. A half-length profile portrait of Thurston fills Read more…


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