Scrap book
Subtitle: devoted to literature, news, events, inventions, art, science, etc., etc., etc., etc
By: selected + arranged by R. Walker Lawrence, 255 Henry, N. Y.,
Contributors: Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1859
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
Subjects: Ballooning; Literature; Miscellanea; Modern Art; Notebooks, sketchbooks; Great Eastern (Steamship)
Other titles: Number 1
Description: Scrapbook (made from a repurposed account book) of newspaper clippings on literature, ballooning, art, Lola Montez, the Great Eastern, and other subjects.  Eleven pages are blank.  On p. [2] of cover, in Harry Houdini's handwriting is the note:  Robt Houdon, see page 31, 125.  Bookseller's label of Brown & Stansbury, New-York.  Sketchy table of contents, partly covered by Houdini bookplate.
Notes: Bequest: Estate of Harry Houdini, April 1927.

Compiler was a commission clerk in New York, N. Y.