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[MAGIC CONVENTION] PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPH OF THE FIRST MAGIC CONVENTION. Columbus, Ohio: Ree Photo Service, 1926. Long image depicts the delegates to the first annual International Brotherhood of Magicians convention, held at W.W. Durbin’s Egyptian Hall in Kenton, Ohio in June of 1926. Among the attendees are Harry Blackstone Sr., Harlan Tarbell, Dorny, Leslie Guest, Percy Abbott, Gene Gordon, Paul Fox, Sid Lorraine, Robert Nelson, Len Vintus, and dozens more. Framed to 9 ¼ x 37”. Visible wear, but not examined out of frame. Although the Society of American Magicians was the first organized magic fraternity (founded in 1902), and London’s Magic Circle came in to being only a few years later, it was the I.B.M., founded in 1922 as a correspondence club by a few scattered friends, that broke new ground with this convention, which was the first such organized gathering of magicians on record.