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Description of Pictures: NBF Presents: Neil Patrick Harris | The Magic Misfits: The Minor Third
Join us for the kick-off event of the Library of Congress National Book Festival Presents series for an exciting evening of magic and moderated conversation with award-winning actor and author Neil Patrick Harris as he celebrates the publication of the third book in his New York Times bestselling book series, The Magic Misfits: The Minor Third.
Ticket holders will be invited to view a ‘magical’ display of the Library’s Harry Houdini collection in the Whittall Pavilion prior to the start of the event. The display will be available for viewing from 6:00pm – 7:00pm on the night of the program.
There will be a signing after the presentation.
Politics and Prose is proud to be the bookseller for this event.

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1. LOCHOU_190911_010.JPG: The Final Seance "World Wide Final Houdini Seance Held by Mrs. Harry Houdini, conducted by Dr. Edward Saint, Hallowe'en, Oct. 31, 1936." Typewritten manuscript, with holograph corrections, 1936.
2. LOCHOU_190911_014.JPG: To President Coolidge An Open Letter to His Excellency Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States. Signed by Houdini.
3. LOCHOU_190911_018.JPG: To Arthur Conan Doyle Harry Houdini to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Typewritten letter signed. Sheffield, March 17, 1920.
4. LOCHOU_190911_022.JPG: Spirit Photographs Photo Album. Spirit Photographs from the Houdini Collection. Ca. 1920. An album of 25 photographic prints of portraits of men and women with ghost images appearing in the frame of each photograph.
5. LOCHOU_190911_026.JPG: With Teddy Roosevelt
6. LOCHOU_190911_031.JPG: "Last Look at Mother" Photograph of Houdini aboard a ship, 1913. "Last look at Mother from boat, 1913." This would indeed be Houdini's last glimpse of his mother, Cecilia. She died while Houdini was touring Europe in 1913.
7. LOCHOU_190911_042.JPG: Houdini, King of Cards
8. LOCHOU_190911_053.JPG: Michelle Krowl (left) and Mark Dimunation, chief of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division (right)
9. LOCHOU_190911_061.JPG: "Greatest Throng Providence Saw Marvels as Harry Houdini Performs an Extra Hazardous Feat." Providence, RI, Evening News, March 7, 1917.
10. LOCHOU_190911_067.JPG: The Challenge Performance Scrapbook documenting challenges to Houdini.
11. LOCHOU_190911_090.JPG: Foreign Magicians Scrapbook 44 from the Houdini Collection, entitled "Foreign Magicians," is filled with programmes and ephemera of Maskelyne & Cooke, Robert-Houdin, Madame Cora, and other performers.
12. LOCHOU_190911_104.JPG: Houdini's Stationery Houdini: World's Greatest Mystery Man and Escape King, Known in Every Country on the Globe. Houdini's stationery. Includes at bottom the Funk and Wagnall's definition of the newly coined term "houdinize," meaning "to release or extricate oneself from (confinement, bonds, or the like), as by wriggling out."
13. LOCHOU_190911_121.JPG: The Prop List Houdini's Scene and Prop List
14. LOCHOU_190911_126.JPG: The Inventory Book This ledger book, referred to as "The Inventory Book," lists the contents of crates and trunks, as well as other items owned by Houdini, presumably carried with him on the road. Covering the period 1911-1926, the book also refers to titles of antiquarian books, perhaps identifying those collected along the way and transported with the show, until Houdini returned home and added them to his library.
15. LOCHOU_190911_136.JPG: "I Had No Dress Suit" Photograph: Harry Houdini, 1906. Margin annotated as: "taken in 1906 in Chicago. I had no dress suit so I borrowed A[ugust]. Roterberg's + here it is. H. Houdini."
16. LOCHOU_190911_138.JPG: Harry Houdini's Scrapbooks The future "Genius of Escape Who Will Startle and Amaze" ran away from home when he was twelve. A postcard from "Your truant son, Ehrich Weiss," to the mother he adored is the earliest example of Harry Houdini's handwriting in the collections of the Library of Congress, relic of the early evasion by the young man who had been born Erik Weisz in Budapest, Hungary, on March 24. 1874. Throughout his life, Houdini explored, with depth and passion, the history and practice of the illusion arts. He administered the record of his own career with equal passion, and willed his entire collection to the Library of Congress. Ever the self-promoter, Houdini maintained scrapbooks of all of his promotional advertising.
17. LOCHOU_190911_163.JPG: One of the "Early Books" Hoffmann, Professor. Tricks with Cards. New York: Routledge, 1890 Inscribed by Houdini: "May 6, 1916. This book is one of the 'early books' in my library. In those days it was my wont to go to public libraries, but this book I bot [sic] and here it is. It was a lot of money for me in those days, but life's pathway is not always best at the early mileage, though the early days were the happiest of my life. H.H." Houdini notes: "The sig[nature] is the way I used to sing myself. H.H." On inside front cover, beneath Houdini's bookplates: Erich Weiss Houdini, Prestidigitatauer [sic], Spt. 28, 1893.
18. LOCHOU_190911_184.JPG: Newmann the Great, ca 1930
19. LOCHOU_190911_196.JPG: Carter the Great. The World's Weird Wonderful Wizard, 1920s
20. LOCHOU_190911_204.JPG: Thurston. Kellar's Successor, copyrighted 1908
21. LOCHOU_190911_229.JPG: Carla Hayden, Michelle Krowl
22. LOCHOU_190911_230.JPG: Carla Hayden, Michelle Krowl
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