Scope and arrangement
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.
The Magic scrapbooks and posters are arranged in two series: