Dutch Playbill for Doctor Silvester · IALS Library - Cultural Property & Cultural Heritage Law

Title: Dutch Playbill for Doctor Silvester
Description: A playbill advertising a performance by the English magician Doctor Silvester, who toured Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia during the 1870s and 1880s. This particular playbill promotes a show in Jakarta—then known as Batavia—and features an illustration of Doctor Silvester's "Beautiful Entranced Lady" aerial suspension illusion, performed with his daughter Daisy.
Date: 1880s
Source: https://archives.libraries.london.ac.uk/Details/archive/110005815
Format: Playbill
Century: 19th
Subject: Magic shows; Performance; Magic tricks

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