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Salo Ansbach
From Magicpedia, the free online encyclopedia for magicians by magicians.
Salo Ansbach (July 30, 1854 - ?), born in Germany and came to the United States in 1871, was a magic teacher and performed as a magician on the Lyceum circuit (starting in 1886). He later was founder/manager of the Ansbach Correspondence School of Magic in Hillsdale, New Jersey.
Ansbach may have been the first person to make a success as a traveling teacher of magic.
References
- Who's who in the lyceum By Alfred Augustus Wright (1906)
- Leaves from Conjurers' Scrap Books by H. J. Burlingame (1891)
- Linking Ring April, 1928, page 101.
