Around the joint of the 19th and 20th centuries, stage tricks were a mainstay of theater entertainment. To seduce the crowd there were posters, each fashioned with feverish, hallucinatory images of death, evil, the Beast, phantasmagoria and the darkest magic.
The occult was a big lure. The subconscious was pricked. Here, below is a collection of 27 attractive posters advertising the circus and magic performances in the Victorian era.
The occult was a big lure. The subconscious was pricked. Here, below is a collection of 27 attractive posters advertising the circus and magic performances in the Victorian era.
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| Female trapeze acrobats at circus, ca. 1890 |
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| Funny scenes on bicycles and skates, poster for Barnum & Bailey, 1900 |
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| Kellar and his servants, magician poster, 1894 |
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| Kellar in the woods with demons, magician poster, 1900 |
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| Kellar the magician, performing arts poster, 1894 |
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| Kellar toasts the Devil, performing arts poster, ca. 1899 |
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| Levitation 2, magician poster Kellar, ca. 1894 |
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| Levitation 3, magician poster for Kellar, 1900 |
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| Levitation, magician poster Kellar, 1894 |
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| Louis Cyr, strongest man on earth, 1898 |
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| Marvelously trained sea lions & seals, poster for Forepaugh & Sells Brothers, 1899 |
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| Scenes in the grand water circus, poster for Barnum & Bailey, 1895 |
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| Self decapitation, magician poster for Kellar, 1897 |
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| Terrific flights over ponderous elephants, poster for Forepaugh & Sells Brothers, 1899 |
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| The great Coney Island water carnival, poster for Barnum & Bailey, 1898. |
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| The great Coney Island water carnival, poster for Barnum & Bailey, 1898 |
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| The marvelous foot-ball dogs, poster for Barnum & Bailey, 1900 |
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| The Orfords, poster for Forepaugh & Sells Brothers, ca. 1897 |
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| The Sandow Trocadero Vaudevilles - Sandow lifting the human dumbell, 1894 |
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| Troupe of very remarkable trained pigs, poster for Barnum & Bailey, 1898 |
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| Twenty funny felt-crowned fools, poster for Forepaugh & Sells Brothers, 1899 |
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| Wm. H. West's Big Minstrel Jubilee - The De Elmar Trio, vaudeville poster, 1900 |
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| Wondrous Wild Beasts, poster for Forepaugh & Sells Brothers, 1897 |
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| Zan Zig performing with rabbit and roses, magician poster, 1899 |
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| A congress of the great birds of the world, poster for Forepaugh & Sells Brothers, ca. 1898 |
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| Champion great danes from the Imperial kennels, poster for Forepaugh & Sells Brothers, ca. 1898 |
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| Descente d'Absalon par Miss Stena, circus poster, ca. 1890 |
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