THE MAGIC POSTERS EFORE his magic show arrived in a town Harry B Kellar hired men to glue his advertising posters onto buildings and fences For most of his career Kellar ordered his posters from Strobridge Lithographing Company of Ohio and New York The examples featured in this book were designed and printed by Strobridge unless otherwise
AER a He ico MAGIC POSTERS ON THE WALL Posters advertise Kellar s 1907 appearance at Hammerstein's Victoria Theatre in New York City Several of them appear in this book Posters often featured a Kellar illusion Many showed him with little devils or imps People once thought that a magician's power came from the devil or the spirit world Kellar played on that superstition to make his illusions and tricks seem more mysterious Strobridge printed the posters using stone lithography An artist created a painting on flat limestone blocks Then the art was transferred to
paper Today a Kellar poster sells for thousands of dollars KELLARS LATEST THEOSOPHIG WONDER THE SHRINE of KooMRA SAMI THE SHRINE OF KOOMRA SAMI 1895 When Kellar performed this illusion his male assistant stepped inside a cage and the cage curtains closed The
curtains flew open again The man had multiplied and the cage now held him his double and a young
