{"value"=>"Two labels affixed to inside front cover: \"The Saram R. Ellison, M.D. collection\" and \"The New York Public Library--presented by Saram R. Ellison, M.D.\""}
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{"value"=>"<p>Articles and clippings with a focus on side shows, hieroglyphics and other forms of picture-writing, skin writing, cricket, human alphabet (people posing to form an alphabet), witch scarers, mysteries of sound, fireworks, smuggling devices, bear training, optical illusions in nature, tattoo artist Sutherland Macdonald, vaudeville, mediums, folk theater, silhouettes/shadow pictures, Nicholas Grollier de Servière, peculiar acts, hypnotism, gambling/speculation, wizards of the Sioux Nation, training wild animals, handcuff trick, and dog orchestra.</p>"}