• Title
  Ira Davenport, magician, medium and spritualist - portrait, 1876 / Bardwell, Ballarat
• Creator
  William H. Bardwell
• Call number
  P1/446
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1876
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  447464
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - carte de visite - 10.4 x 6.3 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  The Davenport Brothers created a sensation all over America and Europe and continued mystifying audiences for years as part of the American spiritualist movement. William Henry and Ira Erastas Davenport introduced the spirit cabinet for mediums to use during a seance, these cabinets would section the medium off from view while they were producing their strange phenomena, the mediums were usually bound hand and foot in the cabinet while phenomena manifested about them. Later the brothers were to teach Houdini the trick of escaping from bonds. The Davenport's careers came to an end in 1877 when William died suddenly. In honor of his brother, Ira ordered a magnificent memorial for him on which was carved a representation of their ropes, cabinet and other seance props. William had died in Australia and cemetery officials in Sydney would not allow the monument within the cemetery grounds. It was placed outside instead. Ira himself died in 1911. -- Note on a portrait of the Davenport Brothers held in the William G. Alma Collection, State Library of Victoria
  In 1876 the Davenports visited Australia. Next year William Davenport died in Sydney. His brother had the cabinet, ropes, etc., engraved on his grave. -- Source: SurvivalAfterDeath.org (online website)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: created before 1955<br>
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/Davenport, Ira (BM), January 2010
  Digital order no:a4214046
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Photographer's stamp
  Ira Devonport [sic] -- in ink on the lower edge of the carte
  "Ira Devonport [sic]" -- in ink on the reverse of the carte
• Name
  Davenport, Ira Erastus
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  magicians
  portraits
  spiritualists
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3254678

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