[The history of magic scrapbooks from the Houdini collection, with related material from the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center]

The magician and escapologist Harry Houdini spent much of his life exploring spiritual phenomena and exposing fraudsters. His archive contains a number of scrapbooks documenting the history of magic and spiritualism. The sixth scrapbook, the Spiritualism scrapbook, contains clippings of articles abo...

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Main Author:	Houdini, Harry, 1874-1926
Corporate Author:	Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
Format:	Electronic
Language:	English
Published:	Marlborough, England : Adam Matthew Digital, c2015.
Edition:	[2015 release].
Series:	Victorian popular culture. Spiritualism, sensation and magic.
Subjects:	Houdini, Harry, > 1874-1926 > Archives. Magicians > United States > Archives. Houdini, Harry, > 1874-1926 > Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. Houdini, Harry, > 1874-1926 > Friends and associates. Doyle, Arthur Conan, > Sir, > 1859-1930. Spiritualism > History > Sources. Magicians > History > Sources. Magic shows > History > Sources. Playbills > United States.
Online Access:	http://www.victorianpopularculture.amdigital.co.uk
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