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• Title:Scrapbooks relating to magic, 1892-1955 (bulk 1930-1955).
  
• Physical Description:2 items.
  

• Yale Holdings

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: GEN MSS 537
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Notes:Chiefly in English; some materials in German.
  Purchased from Chapel Hill Rare Books on the Jockey Hollow Fund, 2003.
  
• Summary:Two scrapbooks containing printed material, including periodicals, catalogs, and advertisements, relating to magic. Periodicals include descriptions and diagrams of tricks and information on magicians. Titles of periodicals include: The Secret Clan, The Echo, Barnstormer, Educational Forum, The Ledger of Magic, Journal of the Institute of Magicians, Hyler's Stunt Bulletin, The Truth About Magic, The Spooks Speak, Miracles, Jackpot, Tommy Windsor's Dope Sheet, and others. In addition, there are advertisements by Robert W. Doidge, Arthur P. Felsman, and N. Genovis, one typescript letter from Leo Rullman, antiquarian bookseller, to Samuel C. Hooker, magician, and a clipping from The Boy's Own Paper.
  
• Variant and related titles:Barnstormer.
  Boy's own paper.
  Echo.
  Educational forum.
  Frank Lane's funny talk.
  Hyler's stunt bulletin.
  Jackpot.
  Journal of the Institute of Magicians.
  Ledger of magic.
  Miracles.
  Secret clan.
  Spooks speak.
  Tommy Windsor's dope sheet.
  Truth about magic.
  
• Other formats:Available on microfilm from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Scrapbooks Relating to Magic. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
  
• Subjects:Doidge, Robert W.
  Felsman, Arthur P.
  Genovis, N.
  Hooker, Samuel C.
  Rullman, Leo.
  Magic tricks.
  Magicians.
  
• Genre/Form:Advertisements.
  Clippings (information artifacts)
  Printed ephemera.
  Scrapbooks.