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Herrmann, Adelaide. Adelaide Herrmann and Company. New York: The Metropolitan Printing Co., ca. 1905. Lithographed poster depicts Herrmann’s Decapitation illusion. The performer holds a sword in her hands while her headless assistant gestures toward a pedestal on which rests her own head. A skeleton floats in the background while a devil flies overhead. Framed to 21 ½ x 31”. Visible wear and rippling; not examined out of frame. After the death of her husband Alexander Herrmann in 1896, Adelaide transformed her career from one as principal assistant in his magic show to its star. Initially working with her nephew Leon Herrmann, she later became a solo performer in vaudeville with a large company of her own assistants. She retired from the stage in 1928.