[Manuscript scrapbook of magic tricks], [1902-1919]

Plate, Adrian, Houdini, Harry, 1874-1926, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) · 1902 · 33 pictures

A manuscript scrapbook of magic tricks compiled between about 1902 and 1919, associated with magician Harry Houdini and Adrian Plate, held in the Library of Congress Harry Houdini Collection in the United States. The pictures are rough printed engravings of stage illusions and parlour tricks, several rotated on the page, showing a seated performer, a cabinet, and a spectral figure in white. A designer might take their hatched shading and theatrical staging as a model for vintage occult or stage-magic graphics.

Houdini, harry · Magic tricks · Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc · Plate, adrian · Scrapbooks · Tricks · United States

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