Title: Theater playbill for the Great Prestidigtateur Herrmann at the Washington Theater, November 18, 1861
Description: Theater! Corner of C and 11th streets, near Pennsylvania avenue. Monday evening, Nov. 18, 1861 and every evening of the week. The Great Prestidigitateur, Herrmann assisted by a grand orchestra. The manager respectfully calls the attention of the public to the appearance in Washington of Monsieur Herrmann who is universally recognised as the greatest living prestidigitateur and whose performances at the principal opera houses in Europe have been pronounced the most wonderful in their peculiar line. The performances of Herrmann are entirely original and novel, the distinguishing feature being the entire absence of any apparatus, all the effects being solely produced by extraordinary manual skill ...