- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Lulu Hurst's Cane Act
- Date of Original:
- 1708/2022
- Subject:
- Vaudeville--Georgia
Magic tricks--Georgia
Entertainers--Georgia
Women entertainers--Georgia
Men--Georgia
Women--Georgia
Spiritualists--Georgia
Amusements--Georgia
Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.)--Georgia
Hurst, Lulu, 1869-1950 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- The young Lulu Hurst made holding onto a cane nearly impossible for grown men in one of her most famous demonstrations.
Photograph of the young Lulu Hurst, the "Georgia Wonder," making holding onto a cane nearly impossible for grown men in one of her most famous demonstrations. She wears a long black dress, and a man stands next to her gripping the cane. Beginning in 1883, several young women from Georgia astonished the nation by demonstrating strange powers in their vaudeville acts. For years afterward, they were among the most popular and controversial variety performers in America and Europe. Lulu Hurst, the first Georgia Wonder, was born in 1869 in Polk County, Georgia. In September 1883 she gained local attention by demonstrating mysterious abilities: chairs, canes, and umbrellas, held by others, seemed gripped by an invisible power when Hurst touched them lightly. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/georgia-wonder-phenomenon/m-7881/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries
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- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/georgia-wonder-phenomenon
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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