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Title
Kar-mi : swallows a loaded gun barrel : and shoots a cracker from a man's head
Creator
National Printing & Engraving Company (U.S.), printer
Hallworth, Joseph B., publisher
Contributor
Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued
1914
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information
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Description
Image of an outdoor stage with the sword-swallowing performer Kar-Mi (Joseph Hallworth who also went by the stage name Victorina) in a Middle Eastern or Hindu ethnic costume kneeling and shooting a bullet from a gun in his mouth to break a cracker from the top of a nearly naked blindfolded man's head, with a bare-breasted woman and smoke-filled censer at the end of the stage, with a crowded audience comprised of bare-chested men wearing white turbans looking on, and a fortified, walled desert city in the background and palm trees at left.
"©1914 Copyright by Joseph B. Hallworth"--text, bottom left of image. "The / National / Ptg & Eng Co / New York St. Louis / 06436"--text, bottom right of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 71.12 x 104.62 cm (28 x 41 3/16 in.)
Identifier
priJLC_ENT_001376
409522
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2307
Subject
Hallworth, Joseph B., 1872---Portraits
Curiosities and wonders--Pictorial works
Deserts--Pictorial works
Ethnic costume--Pictorial works
Magic shows--United States
Magicians--Portraits
Sword swallowing--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1900-1925. (gmgpc)
Theatrical posters--American. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection
Entertainment
Large Size
Magic and Miscellaneous
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
Relation
priJLC_ENT_001375

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