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Magic.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Harry Houdini letters to Charles David Irwin

 Collection — Manuscript box 45 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065249926]
Identifier: 2136
Scope and content Two letters to Charles David Irwin of Brookline, Massachusetts. Houdini, who was then making an investigation of spiritualism, thanks Irwin for clippings concerning an expose which appeared in the Boston Transcript. In another letter Houdini thanks Irwin for photographs, one of which shows "two ghosts", and aks if he would like a spirit photograph of Abraham Lincoln and Houdini; and one letter from Burton Holmes (November 13, no year) to Irwin thanking him for an invitation and mentioning...
Dates: 1924.

Harry Potter collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6519
Scope and content

Books, postcard book, poster book, coloring books, pop-up book, calendar, trading card game, charms, key chain, and related material issued to promote the release of the Warner Bros. film version of the novel Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Also includes a 2016 Ithaca Wizarding Weekend newspaper.

Dates: 2000 - 2016; Majority of material found within 2000 - 2002

Witchcraft collection, unbound manuscripts

 Collection — Microfilm box 121 - microfilm reel 6
Identifier: 4620
Abstract

Documents, broadsides, letters, and other manuscripts concerning witchcraft and witchcraft trials in Europe, mainly in Germany, through the early modern period, with a few documents from New England.

Dates: 1560-1973.