H. J. Burlingame Explained
Hardin Jasper Burlingame (1852–1915) was an American magician and magic historian.[1]
Burlingame had taken lessons from the magician David Tobias Bamberg. He later used the stage name "Jasper Bamberg" when he performed in Chicago.[2]
Burlingame is most well known for his book Hermann the Magician (1897), a biography of the magician Alexander Herrmann.[3]
He also wrote a biography of Baron Hartwig Seeman, a noted Swedish magician.[4]
Publications
Notes and References
- Millstein, Denise Tischler. (2010). Victorian Secrecy: Economies of Knowledge and Concealment. Routledge. p. 166.
- [Milbourne Christopher|Christopher, Milbourne]
- Claflin, Edward; Sheridan, Jeff. (1977). Street Magic: An Illustrated History of Wandering Magicians and Their Conjuring Arts. Dolphin Books. p. 147.
- Siegel, Lee. (1991). Net of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India. University of Chicago Press. p. 212.