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Thurston the Famous Magician: East Indian Rope-Trick
1927
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
Washington, DC, United States
This stage illusion involved a levitating rope and a disappearing boy assistant, with a fake Indian setting intended to make things more mysterious.
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- Title: Thurston the Famous Magician: East Indian Rope-Trick
- Date: 1927
- Story: In the 1800s, travel writers, intoxicated by India as a “jewel in the crown” of the British Empire, sketched exotic caricatures of the Indian “Hindoo,” complementing exports of silks and spices to America.
- Quote: Magician Howard Thurston performs the so-called “East Indian rope trick”
- Rights: Created by The Otis Lithograph Company, Cleveland, Ohio Library of Congress
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