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Stories of the wands: Scrapbook

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Billy Rose Theatre Division

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Magic scrapbooks and posters

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Title
Stories of the wands: Scrapbook
Additional title: Scrapbook
Names
Ellison, Saram Richard, 1852-1918 (Collector)
Collection

Magic scrapbooks and posters

Series I: Scrapbooks

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1919
Library locations
Billy Rose Theatre Division
Shelf locator: *T-Mss 2011-031
Topics
Magic
Magicians
Magic wands
Genres
Scrapbooks
inventories
Notes
Content: Handwritten on title page: "The Ellison Collection of Wands--Presented to the Society of American Magicians by his intimate friend & Companion-Louis N. Donnatin. August 6, 1919"; written in pencil under title: "some are in later scrap book". Found under entry for Bartolomeo Bosco is a handwritten note: "The above is the truth, Harry Houdini"; Bosco entry: "A piece of stone 3 inches long, one end rounded. Presented by Harry Houdini, who says: -'I visited the grave of Bosco and found that the stone had at the bottom, his coat of arms, which were the 3 cups trick a ball and a wand, I found the head of the wand broken off and in looking in the tall grass I actually found the tip of the wand, which I will make you a present of '. "
Physical Description
Extent: 1 volume
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b18891415
MSS Unit ID: 22051
Archives EAD ID: 1079799
NYPL Exhibition ID: LPA 26.501.004
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 16e69290-4845-0139-4fc3-0242ac110002
Rights Statement
The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.

Item timeline of events

  • 1852: Creator Born
  • 1918: Creator Died
  • 1919: Created
  • 2025: Digitized
  • 2026: Found by you!
  • 2027

MLA Format

Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "Stories of the wands" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1919. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ae31c3a0-6652-013e-8385-0242ac110003

Chicago/Turabian Format

Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "Stories of the wands" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed September 20, 2026. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ae31c3a0-6652-013e-8385-0242ac110003

APA Format

Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. (1919). Stories of the wands Retrieved from https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ae31c3a0-6652-013e-8385-0242ac110003

Wikipedia Citation

<ref name=NYPL>{{cite web | url=https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ae31c3a0-6652-013e-8385-0242ac110003 | title= (text) Stories of the wands, (1919)|author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=September 20, 2026 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>

Stories of the wands