{"id":51052,"date":"2021-11-21T03:22:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T03:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurn.org\/tentaclii\/?p=51052"},"modified":"2022-04-11T06:32:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T06:32:03","slug":"the-harry-houdini-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/11\/21\/the-harry-houdini-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Harry Houdini Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Harry+Houdini+Collection+%28Library+of+Congress%29+DLC%22&#038;sort=-publicdate\">The Harry Houdini Collection<\/a>, with 779 items made public and searchable. Magic, both stage conjuring and occult. Also stagecraft, selected folklore (e.g. Cornwall) and myth, and more.<\/p>\n<p>More recently on Archive.org, the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/pub_illustrated-london-news?sort=-publicdate\"><em>Illustrated London News<\/em> 1842-2003<\/a> is still being loaded, albeit from microfilm so the pictures are not great. But they&#8217;re not too bad, and it is thus made easily and quickly searchable. A possible source of portraits of 1920s writers, and various historical snippets about the British Isles. So far as I recall, the run is paywalled in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Harry Houdini Collection, with 779 items made public and searchable. Magic, both stage conjuring and occult. Also stagecraft, selected &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/11\/21\/the-harry-houdini-collection\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53319,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51052\/revisions\/53319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}