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[MCMANUS-YOUNG MAGIC COLLECTION]. Archive of letters, photographs, documents, and ephemera related to the McManus-Young Magic Collection. Including: correspondence between Morris N. Young (1909-2002) and Jennings Young, Chief of the Exchange and Gift Division of the Library of Congress and others concerning the presentation of the enormous McManus-Young magic collection to the Library of Congress. Also included are photographs (including a rare, signed photograph of legendary magician, Harry Blackstone, Sr. (1885-1965)), newspaper clippings, a typed manuscript for the catalogue of the 1955 exhibit (“The Art and Craft of Magic”), programs of various events (not all related to the exhibit – there’s a program for the “Official Houdini Séance (1996), and more. An excellent and fascinating archive related to one of the most legendary magic collections and its disposition.