[Scrapbook on magic, magicians, spiritualism, and hypnotism]
Contributors: Houdini, Harry, 1874-1926; Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1888
Language: eng
Number of pages: 110
Subjects: Spiritualism; Magicians; Hindu magic; Magic tricks
Other titles: Hindoos xposed
Description: Scrapbook of magazine and newspaper clippings compiled by S. Willson Bailey and Harry Houdini.  Contents are about spiritualism, "Hindoo" magic, magic tricks, hypnotism, and magicians.
Notes: Spine title in manuscript.

Front free endpaper has a port. of Bailey and this typescript note: "The most of this material pasted in this book was given to me by S. Willson Bailey during my engagement at Keith's Theatre, April 1908.  He had collected the material and pasted the articles in this book himself.  I have added a few things so as to fill up book.  Harry Houdini."  This is followed by the autograph of Houdini and "signed Nov. 17, 1920".

Bequest: Estate of Harry Houdini, April 1927.

Magician, briefly associated with Chung Ling Soo, later a dealer and manufacturer of magical apparatus.