Album
Contributors: Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1893
Language: eng
Number of pages: 60
Subjects: Notebooks, sketchbooks; Magicians; Divination; Magic tricks; Telepathy
Description: Scrapbook chiefly of newspaper clippings, with some tricks in ms. (with the handwriting of A. Roterberg and Henry Hatton identified by Houdini), divination, mind-reading, and magicians.  With inscription:  Adrian Plate, 143 Liberty Str.
Notes: Includes a manuscript index.

Bequest: Estate of Harry Houdini, April 1927.

Compiler was a Dutch-born magician who emigrated to the U.S. in 1877, best known for his mental magic.  Co-authored Magicians' tricks (1910).