This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/28/2023
JANSEN, Harry (1883–1955). THE GREAT JANSEN. AMERICA’S GREATEST TRANSFORMIST. Milwaukee: American Show Print, ca. 1915. Half-sheet color lithograph depicts Jansen’s performance of the Modern Cabinet illusion, now popularly known as “Things that Go Bump in the Night.” 28¼ × 21". Rippling and old folds prominent; mounted to board.
Jansen went on to fame and fortune performing under his later stage name, Dante. After his retirement from the stage under his given name, American Show Print, which produced this lithograph (and many others) for his show repurposed the image as a stock poster that could be overprinted for other magicians in the space formerly occupied by Jansen’s name.