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Posted: 28 May 2015

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J. H. Kanarr, Professional Hypnotist, Lancaster, Pa.

J. H. Kanarr, Professional Hypnotist, Lancaster, Pa.
"J. H. Kanarr, professional hypnotist, Lancaster, Pa. Hypnotism thoroughly taught. Charges reasonable. Diseases cured without medicine. Public and private exhibitions given."

Beverly Wilgus (Photo_History) posted an unused copy of this card on Flickr (see Blank Business Card for Professional Hypnotist - c. 1890) and speculated that the cards may have come from a nineteenth-century hypnotism school. In fact, I believe that the professional hypnotist cards originated with Lew Alexander Harraden of Jackson, Michigan, who offered mail-order lessons in hypnotism under the name "Prof. L. A. Harraden" in the 1890s and 1900s.

Although J. H. Kanarr probably purchased one of Harraden's mail-order courses, it's doubtful that he ever actually worked as a "professional hypnotist."

, Smiley Derleth, , have particularly liked this photo

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 arts enthusiast
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Diseases cured without medicine. Oh, how I wish the mind were THAT powerful. I'll bet this guy made a handsome living.
9 years ago.

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