Kellar – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare vintage poster captures Kellar in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Few posters of the period were built on a single illusion as directly as this one, which puts the levitation at the center of the design. Harry Kellar, a leading American stage magician of the late 1800s, built his touring shows around large, theatrical effects, and this tall color lithograph, printed by the Strobridge Litho Company in Cincinnati and New York around 1900, is a typical example of how such effects were sold to audiences. Strobridge was one of the busiest theatrical poster houses of its era, supplying bold, eye-catching sheets to traveling performers. Its scale, at more than seven feet tall, was meant to be read from across a street.
| Created / published | Cincinnati ; New York : Strobridge Litho. Co., c1900. |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 213 x 101 cm. |
| Notes | D10719 U.S. Copyright Office Created and copyright 1900 by The Strobridge Litho Co |
| Subjects | Kellar, Harry,--1849-1922--Performances. Levitation. Magic. Magicians. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,159 × 4,105 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226574 |
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