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BALDWIN, Samri S. (Samuel Spencer Baldwin 1848 - 1924). The White Mahatma. Cincinnati: The Enquirer Job Printing Co., [ca. 1890]. Full-color pictorial lithograph bears a central seated portrait of the mind reader and magician dressed in a flowing robe and turban, seated next to a table upon which a skull rests. The portrait is flanked by imps, a winged demon, and additional skulls. Framed to 31 ? x 23 ??. Expert restoration to lower right corner, creases, and tiny losses. Not examined out of frame. See LP&FW p. 177.Baldwin coined the phrase ?Somnomency? or trance-talking, to describe his act, which he called ?Rosicrucian Somnomency,? and he was the first to take the ?question and answer? mentalism act to the stage.