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Carter the great : Carter beats the devil

Description: Image of American magician Charles Joseph Carter, known as Carter the Great, wearing a turban and tuxedo and showing a hand of playing cards with four aces to the audience while sitting at a green card table with a deck of cards and poker chips and playing poker with the devil who has two horns and mustache and displays four kings.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1926
Call number: priJLC_ENT_001367
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.

Triumphant American tour George the supreme master of magic : 18 people carload of scenic effects

Visual Materials

Image of American magician Grover George standing at upper left in a tuxedo and doing a magic trick with playing cards flying from his hand, with images of red devils with horns, a cauldron with smoke and flames, a statue-like man sitting with legs crossed and making a hand symbol, and a frog before him.

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Kellar the great magician

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Image of a half-length portrait of American magician Harry Kellar, bald, in formal dress wearing a tuxedo with a red devil with horns on each shoulder.

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The Barnum & Bailey musical elephant prodigies

Visual Materials

Image of a central image of five elephants playing horn instruments with female circus performers also playing horns while standing on the elephants' backs, with four vignettes of the elephants in various performances, captioned "Entirely New Elephant Performances," "The Gallant Pachyderms," "A Swiss Bell Quintet," and "The Grand Overture," and a small vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of elephant trainer Harry J. Mooney.

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"Triumphant American tour" George the supreme master of magic : 18 people carload of scenic effects

Visual Materials

Image of American magician Grover George standing at left center while holding a magician's wand and doing a magic trick with playing cards flying from his hand before young women wearing robs and bows in their hair with images of different world locales including Arab men on camels in Egypt by the Great Pyramids and an Asian locale with a man wearing a traditional Chinese costume, lanterns, a pagoda, and a woman holding a serving tray, with a witch flying on a broomstick and three red devils with horns in the left foreground looking at a large book while holding a snake and playing cards.

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Superb scenic production of L.J. Carter’s great play : the fast mail

Visual Materials

Image of a landscape view of Niagara Falls at night with silhouettes of people on a suspension bridge and a body falling into the river below; vignettes of four scenes consisting of a man tied to a chair; a man sitting on a park bench with a woman standing behind him; a police officer shining a light down upon two men, and a man comparing the time on a pocket watch to the time of a grandfather clock; the poster advertises the melodrama "The Fast Mail" written by Lincoln J. Carter.

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Whist playing set belonging to Henry E. Huntington

Manuscripts

Small box made to look like a two miniature book set. One spine reads "Chip in and Out," the other "Whist ye Not." Side is monogrammed "H.E.H." One side holds a set of playing cards, the other four rows of multi-colored chips.

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Carter the great : Carter beats the devil

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