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HENDERSON (Milton H. Grannat, d. 1925). Henderson, Prestidigitateur. [New York]: Crane Co., [ca. late 1800s]. Two-sided pictorial letterpress advertising card for the drawing-room entertainer, bearing an engraved bust portrait of “Professor Henderson,” captioned below on recto, along with promotional text and a listing of the types of entertainment available on verso (“Punch and Judy, stereopticon, shadow pantomimes, spiritual phenomena”). 4 x 2 ¾”. Corners clipped (possibly as issued). Holographically labeled on recto, minor soiling.A Civil War veteran who served aboard the iron-clad warship, the USS Monitor during its famous battle with the Merrimack, Grannat performed for decades afterward in New York.