[Oversize materials and loose items removed for rehousing from Houdini scrapbooks,]
Contributors: Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1860
Language: eng
Number of pages: 14
Subjects: Spiritualism; Posters; Magicians; Knowledge
Description: Miscellaneous posters and clippings removed from scrapbooks probably assembled by Harry Houdini.  Includes posters advertising performances for Joseffy, Necromancer [no date]; The World Congress of Wonders and entertainments by Major Bourke, Adelaide, N.S.W. Australia [no date]; Miracles, St. Louis, Thursday, May 13, [1902?]; Houdini with his portrait on billing poster for the Orpheum Vaudeville Circuit, Los Angeles Orpheum Theatre with the Cansinos, [ca. 1926]. Also includes newspaper clippings from The Bulletin, San Francisco, Aug. 31, 1907; Los Angeles Record, Dec. 1 and 3, 1915; Morning Telegraph, Feb. 13, 1925; Truth Seeker, Jan. 14, 1925, debunking a spiritualist, Boston Herald, Feb. 14 and 19, 1925. Includes 2 envelopes addressed to Houdini, postmarked 1925 from Quincy Kilby, Brookline, Mass. and from Joseph L. [?] 1658 Broadway, N.Y.
Notes: Bequest: Estate of Harry Houdini, April 1927.