[Scrapbook on handcuff tricks, ventriloquism, and shadow pictures]
Contributors: Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1863
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: Notebooks, sketchbooks; Magic tricks; Ventriloquism; Shadow-pictures
Description: Scrapbook assembled probably by Ellis Stanyon.  Newspaper and magazine clippings on handcuff tricks, ventriloquism, and shadow pictures.  Attribution to Stanyon made on the basis of notations of sources in ms.  The first item mounted in the album is his "Great handcuff tricks", no. 13 of his Stanyon's serial lessons in conjuring (June 1904).
Notes: Compiled in a Walker's "century" scrap & newscuttings book (patented) no. 3 ... London : John Walker and Co.

Bequest: Estate of Harry Houdini, April 1927.

Noted English magic dealer, writer, editor of Magic.