A poster for Barnum and Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth: "Chaste, charming, weird & wonderful supernatural illusions ... created by Roltair, the magician," c. 1898. People are shown viewing illusions in a hall, with Bluebeard and his chamber of wives' heads at center.

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