Record
Contributors: Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1882
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: Spiritualism; Juggling; Telepathy; Card tricks; Notebooks, sketchbooks; Magic tricks; Shadow-pictures
Description: Scrapbook chiefly of magazine and newspaper clippings.  Articles are on mind reading, spiritualism, juggling, shadowgraphy, magic tricks (especially card tricks).  With inscriptions:  Adrian Plate, 143 Liberty Street; "I bot this personally from Plate before I bot his library. Houdini."
Notes: Spine title.

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).