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Pure magic!

Over 1,800 adverts and posters from Victorian daily life, collected by the stage magician and ventriloquist, Henry Evans - Evanion to his audience.

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Evanion Collection of Ephemera

M. Evanion's Wonderful Entertainment,
c.1875

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James Pain, pyrotechnologist,
c.1884

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Fry's cocoa advertisement,
1884

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Winter Fashion Catalogue,
c.1888

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Canterbury Theatre of Varieties,
1869

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Helen Peden
Curator, British Collections 1801-1914