[Magicians and mediums scrapbook,]
Contributors: Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1860
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Spiritualism; Daredevils; Magicians; Knowledge; Notebooks, sketchbooks; Mediums
Description: Scrapbook probably assembled by  Harry Houdini.  Newspaper clippings (a few from clipping services) and a few magazine clippings on magicians, mediums, hypnotism, and daredevils.  Handbills and posters advertising performances, some in color.  A few photographs, several of which are formal portraits, and envelopes addressed to Charles L. Burlingame (one of the companies operated by H.J. Burlingame) and H.J. Burlingame.  Some materials annotated in Houdini's hand; autographed, p. 13.  Ca. 100 p. are blank.  A leaf of ms. notes (in Houdini's hand) on the scrapbook itself is laid in.
Notes: Bequest: Estate of Harry Houdini, April 1927.

Magician, escape artist, and inventor.