- unitid
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{"value"=>"22051", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"*T-Mss 2011-031", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b18891415", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1851-1936", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1851/1936"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Magic scrapbooks and posters"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"16 volumes and 7 oversized folders", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2.7 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Billy Rose Theatre Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Magic scrapbooks collection contains a significant amount of articles, clippings, correspondence, ephemera, photographs and posters pertaining to magicians, mentalists, conjurers and escape artists from the 19th- and early 20th-centuries, particularly during the Golden Age of Magic."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"Multiple languages"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>This collection contains a significant amount of articles, clippings, correspondence, ephemera, photographs, and posters pertaining to magicians, mentalists, conjurers and escape artists from the 19th and early 20th centuries, inclding Albini, Brush, Dunninger, Imro Fox, Germain the Wizard, Haldeen, Hardeen, the Herrmann family (Compars, Alexander, Adelaide, and Leon), Houdini, Kellar, Laurant, Martinka & Co., the Roucleres, Thurston and the Zancigs, among others.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Magic scrapbooks and posters are arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/22051#c1911065'>Series I: Scrapbooks</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1851-1936</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>2.67 linear feet (16 volumes)</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/the/22051#c1911082'>Series II: Posters</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1875-1929</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>0.06 linear feet (7 oversize folders)</div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection is divided into two series: Scrapbooks and Posters. Series I is arranged in chronological order. Series II is arranged alphabetically by performer.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>This items in this collection were acquired by the New York Public Library from various donors--most unidentified-- over several decades of the early 20th-century.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Many of these materials were catalogued individually with MZC classmarks when acquired by NYPL. This collection was asembled and reclassified with a manuscript call number in <span class=\"date\">2011</span>.</p>"}
- accessrestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>Posters in this collection are available for consultation by appointment only. Please email theatre@nypl.org to arrange viewing.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>See also related collections: Dr. Saram R. Ellison scrapbooks (*T-Mss 1915-001); Houdiniana (*T-Mss 2016-010); and Houdini artwork (*T-Vim 2011-293).</p>"}
- sponsor
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{"value"=>"Conservation and digitization of many of the posters was made possible through a\n generous gift from Kathryn and Alan C. Greenberg. "}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Removed Saram Ellison scrapbooks to create a new collection.", "date"=>"2020-03-20"}
{"value"=>"Added Houdini poster to Series II", "date"=>"2022-11-10"}
{"value"=>"Additional posters added to Series II", "date"=>"2025-03"}
{"value"=>"Additional posters added to Series II and publisher and date information revised in\n other poster entries", "date"=>"2025-05"}
{"value"=>"Additional posters added to Series II", "date"=>"2026-07"}
- date_start
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1851
- keydate
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1851
- date_end
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1936
- date_inclusive_start
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1851
- date_inclusive_end
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1936
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Magic scrapbooks and posters, *T-Mss 2011-031. Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}