Image of American magician Charles Joseph Carter, known as Carter the Great, wearing a turban and tuxedo and showing a hand of playing cards with four aces to the audience while sitting at a green card table with a deck of cards and poker chips and playing poker with the devil who has two horns and mustache and displays four kings. Probable date based on date provided for copy held by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University "The Otis Litho. Co. Cleveland, O. Made in U.S.A. 4628-M"--text, bottom right margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 55.72 x 35.72 cm (21 15/16 x 14 1/16 in.)
Carter, Charles J. (Charles Joseph), 1874-1936--Portraits Card games--Pictorial works Devil--Pictorial works Magic shows--United States Magicians--Portraits Playing cards--Pictorial works Lithographs--Color--1925-1950. (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
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