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Record ID marc_loc_updates/v39.i23.records.utf8:18699829:1804
Source Library of Congress
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LEADER: 01804ntcaa2200289 a 4500
001 2011656310
003 DLC
005 20110603103003.0
008 110602i19021904xx 000 0 eng
010 $a 2011656310
040 $aDLC$cDLC$edacs
050 00 $aHoudini manuscripts collection 4
100 1 $aGoodwin, John J.,$dd. 1920.
245 10 $aJohn J. Goodwin papers,$f1902-1904.
300 $a1 box.
351 $aA collection of miscellaneous papers$borganized by type of material: Plans for magic shows; Records of magic performances; The art of magic; List of tricks, apparatus, secrets, and books on magic; Tricks; Codes; Lyrics and poems; Plays.
545 $aJohn J. Goodwin was a magician, trick inventor, and a magic book and magazine collector from Brooklyn, New York, and an early member of the Society of American Magicians.
520 2 $aContains directions and staging instructions for magic shows; records of performances by prominent magicians (Leon Herrmann, Herbert Albini, and Horace Marshall (Marshall the Mystic); a ms. book (apparently unpublished) "The art of magic" (45 p.); List of tricks, apparatus, secrets, and books on magic in his collection; the tricks themselves, giving staging instructions and explaining the secret of each trick; codes, both written and for confederates; lyrics and poems, written by Goodwin; and Plays, both printed and ms.
541 $cBequest:$aEstate of Harry Houdini, April 1927.
600 10 $aGoodwin, John J.,$dd. 1920$vArchives.
650 0 $aMagicians$zUnited States.
600 10 $aHerrmann, Leon,$d1867-1909.
600 10 $aAlbini, Herbert,$d1860-1922.
600 10 $aMarshall, Horace.
650 0 $aMagic tricks$xHistory$vSources.
650 0 $aMagic shows$xHistory$vSources.
710 2 $aHarry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)$5DLC