[Scrapbook of magic tricks]
Contributors: Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1888
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Notebooks, sketchbooks; Magicians; Tricks; Magic tricks
Description: Scrapbook chiefly of magazine clippings, with a few newspaper clippings and handbills, mainly on magic tricks; there are a few biographical articles.  Some ms. in Plate's hand, completing otherwise incomplete articles.  With inscriptions:  Adrian Plate, 143 Liberty Str., New York; H. Houdini, May 25 [19]16.  Ink stamp of W.F. Murray, stationery and blank books, N.Y.
Notes: 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).