MISS DELL O’DELL COMPOSITE PHOTOGRAPH (1930s) / Archival Magician Photo Reprint

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MISS DELL O’DELL 8.5
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” COMPOSITE PHOTOGRAPH" (1930s)
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BEAUTIFUL ARCHIVAL B&W MODERN PHOTOGRAPHIC REPRINT
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Beautiful 8.5” x 11” black and white composite photo of Miss Dell O’Dell from the early 30s, originally made up of two separate images; one of her posing in costume and the other in front of a painting. A v
ery beautiful
reprint, perfect for framing and display.
Printed on archival 73 lb. glossy photographic stock.
This is
a photographic reprint
made from a high quality original. When evaluating the quality of the photo, please keep in mind that some of the original photos were taken over 100 years ago.
ABOUT DELL O’DELL
Dell O'Dell (1897-1962), born Nell Odella Newton, was an American magician regarded in her profession as a pioneer who provided a role model for modern female performers and noted for being one of the first magicians to appear on television.
Nell Newton's father worked in carnivals and she began learning magic from him when she was young. She developed a style that featured snappy patter and cute rhymes, which became something of a trademark. Dell was known to hire writers for her special rhyming patter, with some being printed in Genii Magazine.
She married Charles Carrer, a famous juggler, who managed her show and constructed props for her. She and Charles established homes in New York, Florida and California.
Early on O'Dell bought the rights to the comedy magic act of Frank Van Hoven (1886-1929) and was successful with her own version.
She became a pioneer of television magic when The Dell O'Dell Show began transmission on a local station in the Los Angeles area in California on 14 September 1951. She thus pre-dated several other noted pioneers of television magic, such as Mark Wilson, whose first television show began in 1955, and Richiardi Jr who made the first of his record run of appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1956.
O'Dell wrote extensively on the subject of magic. She contributed a column titled "Dell-lightfully" for the magicians' magazine The Linking Ring. Her Stamp Album presentation was published in volume 4 of the Tarbell Course in Magic.
Although she claimed to be born Oct. 20, 1902, in Kansas, research at DellODell.com and the Houdini Museum into the file of the Wisconsin Births and Christenings, 1826-1926 for Newton found otherwise.
Nell Newton changed her name legally to Dell O'Dell and continued to perform until her death from multiple myoloma cancer at the age of 59 in Santa Monica, California. She donated her body to UCLA Medical School.
A Special Thanks to Magicpedia For Some Biographical Information.
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