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LEROY, Servais (1865 – 1953). Archive of Servais LeRoy Ephemera and Illusion Data. 1890s – 1910s. Including 19 newspaper clippings neatly mounted to two pieces of stiff card and captioned in ink, the clippings describing performances by Talma, the Queen of Coins (LeRoy's wife and performing partner); an ALS from a freight company to The Servais LeRoy Co. regarding a freight shipment with a lengthy two-page carbon reply including information about Halton & Jansen; the draft of a press release or text for an advertising brochure, possibly in LeRoy's hand, outlining the effects in the LeRoy show, written on hotel letterhead and dated 1910; a short list of theater dates for the company in the UK; an invoice to LeRoy for teddy bear heads and animal and fabric; a Servais LeRoy Co. invoice dated July 18 1912; a pencil sketch for an illusion showing a large winch-driven trap under the stage, in pencil on two sides of a blank 8vo sheet; and a four-page typed manuscript describing the Screen Illusion of LeRoy, Talma, and Bosco, possibly a draft for a Will Goldston publication. A very good group of ephemeral material related to the career of the inventive Belgian magician, his short-lived magic shop, and his many influential creations.