Thurston, master magician and his pets – Antique Print
![Thurston, master magician and his pets, Cleveland, O. : Otis Lithograph Co., [ca. 1898] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c8/c80af78e4a9d-L.webp)
(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.)
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A window into the past: Thurston, master magician and his pets, preserved in this vintage poster. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Thurston, master magician and his pets
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Thurston's poster is an unusually tall, narrow sheet, about 100 by 30 centimeters, that presents the magician alongside the animals in his act. Howard Thurston was one of the most successful touring illusionists of his era, and by the late 1890s he was building the stage shows that would make him a major name in American magic. The sheet was printed in color by the Otis Lithograph Company of Cleveland, a firm known for theatrical advertising that was then supplying posters to traveling entertainers across the country. Its tall format was typical of the period, when posters were designed to be pasted on fences, billboards, and shop walls where passersby would notice them.
| Created / published | Cleveland, O. : Otis Lithograph Co., [ca. 1898] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 100 x 30 cm. |
| Genre | O." "Made in U.S.A." Forms part of the McManus-Young Collection. No. O-2446. Transferred from; LC Rare Book and Special Collections Division; 1956." |
| Notes | Created by The Otis Lithograph Co. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,093 × 5,127 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226581 |
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