Scrap book collection
Subtitle: odds & ends pertaining to magicians, jugglers, spirit mediums, etc., cumenceing Jan. 1st 1911 : property of Prof. Harry Helms ...
Contributors: Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1908
Language: eng
Number of pages: 74
Description: Scrapbook, with numerous laid in materials, on magicians, vaudeville, magic tricks, and stage magic; handbills, newspaper and magazine clippings, advertisements, business cards, and programs.  Two issues of Better magazine (v. 6, no. 5 and 7).
Notes: Cover title.

"Novelty mystery acts".

Bequest: Estate of Harry Houdini, April 1927.

Compiler was a small time showman in medicine shows, circuses, variety shows, etc., who performed as a musician, magician, and juggler.  He was a friend of Harry Houdini.