[Oversize materials and loose items removed for rehousing from Houdini scrapbooks,] [1860-1925].

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[Oversize materials and loose items removed for rehousing from Houdini scrapbooks,] [1860-1925].

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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]; the great Kara the world's foremost mind reader and crystal gazer and his $50,000 production of Oriental splendor "A night in the Orient"; [no date]; Miracles, St. Louis, Thursday, May 13, [1902?]; Prof. C. Irvin Althouse, 621 South Broadway, opposite Orpheum, the celebrated and skillful scientific astrologer and delineator of horoscopes by the planets, also expert palmist, [1908?] (2 copies); 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.

7 folders (17 items) : ill., ports. ; 111 x 77 cm. or smaller.

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Kara, the Great

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Joseffy, 1873-1946

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Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)

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Cansino, Elisa, 1894-

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Houdini, Harry, 1874-1926

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Harry Houdini (born Erik Weisz; March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926) was a Hungarian-born American escape artist, illusionist, stunt performer and mysteriarch, noted for his escape acts. He first attracted notice in vaudeville in the United States and then as "Harry 'Handcuff' Houdini" on a tour of Europe, where he challenged police forces to keep him locked up. Soon he extended his repertoire to include chains, ropes slung from skyscrapers, straitjackets under water, and having to escape from ...

Althouse, C. Irvin

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Cansino, Eduardo, 1893-1968

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