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[Houdiniana from the McManus-Young Collection in RBD; miscellaneous scrapbook pages containing photos, news clipping, namecards, tickets, theatre announcements, posters] – Vintage Poster Wall Art

[Houdiniana from the McManus-Young Collection in RBD; miscellaneous scrapbook pages containing photos, news clipping, namecards, tickets, theatre announcements, posters], [no date recorded on caption card] — vintage poster
[Houdiniana from the McManus-Young Collection in RBD; miscellaneous scrapbook pages containing photos, news clipping, namecards, tickets, theatre announcements, posters], [no date recorded on caption card]. Vintage poster from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Houdiniana from the McManus-Young Collection in RBD; miscellaneous scrapbook pages containing photos, news clipping, namecards, tickets, theatre announcements, posters]

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A scrapbook page of Houdiniana, filled with photographs, a newspaper clipping, namecards, tickets, theater announcements and posters, forms this part of the McManus-Young Collection. The record gives no date, so the page's age is uncertain, but its mix of ephemera fits the way fans and collectors saved traces of touring performers in the early twentieth century, when Harry Houdini, the escape artist, was one of the best-known names on the vaudeville and theater circuit. Pages like this matter to researchers because they keep the everyday paper trail of a performer's career, from advertising to tickets, that formal archives often lose.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 print.
NotesScrapbook page. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: RBD; Magic...; BI; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,159 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-133190

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