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Abracadabra! Magicians, Conjurers, Seers, Illusionists

by The Library of Congress

On International Magicians Day (January 31st), we DO have something up our sleeves...posters and photographs featuring magicians. It's no trick, more are available in the Library's Magic Poster Collection.

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SURPRISED? MAGICIAN CHRISTOPHER, LEFT, EXTRACTS AN EGG, SO IT SEEMS, FROM THE MOUTH OF SURPRISED DIANA ROOSEVELT, DAUGHTER OF MRS. J. HALL ROOSEVELT OF DETROIT, AT THE ANNUAL EASTER EGG ROLLING AT THE WHITE HOUSE. MRS. FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT IS SHOWN AS SHE G

Miss Baldwin, a modern witch of Endor (LOC)

Thurston the great magician (LOC)

The last of the magicians, Powell (LOC)

Houdini (LOC)

[Magician holding rabbit and conjuring spirit surrounded by demon and owls] (LOC)

Thurston, master magician (LOC)

[Magician pulling roses out of top hat surrounded by supernatural beings] (LOC)

Alexander, crystal seer (LOC)

Kellar and his perplexing cabinet mysteries (LOC)

Laurant (LOC)

Houdini jumps from Harvard Bridge, Boston, Massachusetts (LOC)

Master mystifier, Houdini (LOC)

[Zan Zig performing in four magic vignettes] (LOC)

A sorcerer passes by in the Fred Meyer Junior Parade, one several events in Portland, Oregon's, annual Rose Festival (LOC)

Thurston (LOC)

Newmann's wonderful spirit mysteries (LOC)

Marajah (LOC)

Houdini (LOC)

[Harry Houdini, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, in chains] (LOC)

The Barnum and Bailey greatest show on earth--Chaste, charming, weird & wonderful supernatural illusions ... created by Roltair, the magician (LOC)

Alexander the man who knows (LOC)

[Harry Houdini performs the great milk can escape] (LOC)

Frederick Bancroft, prince of magicians (LOC)

Kellar in his latest mystery (LOC)