Thurston, Howard | The Otis Lithograph Co.'s poster for Thurston's spirit illusion

Thurston, Howard

Do the Spirits Come Back? Thurston the Great Magician. The Wonder Show of the Universe. Cleveland: The Otis Lithograph Co., ca. 1914 (no. O-656)

Color lithograph poster (27 x 41 in.; 688 x 1042 mm). Fold and other creases, a little bit of recoloring at central intersecting fold. Laid down on linen.

This Otis Lithograph poster for "Do the Spirits Come Back?" is usually dated about a decade after the two Strobridge posters for the illusion, but the Library of Congress assigns the Otis version—which similarly features sprites, disembodied hands, a ghostly trumpeter, and Thurston holding a skull, from which emanates a green fog and sprites—a slightly earlier date (https://www.loc.gov/item/2014636959/).