The Great Evanion, then down on his luck, gave photographs, tickets, playbills and posters to library in 1895In 1895 the British Library did something extraordinary: it bought, for 20 shillings, the entire collection of a down-on-his-luck conjurer and collector, the Great Evanion, "the royal conjurer and humourist".By then Evanion, real name Harry Evans, was living in a basement flat in Kennington, but he brought a w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:27PM on October 13, 2016