[EPHEMERA ARCHIVE - MAGICIANS] The Salon de Magie Ephemera Archives of Modern Magicians. 1880s - 2020s. A gigantic collection of printed matter related to magicians of the late ninteenth, twentieth, and twenty first centuries, all gathered and organized by Ken Klosterman and housed in his fabled Salon de Magie collection in Loveland, Ohio for decades. 

Included are hanging green folders filled to overflowing containing Christmas cards, photographs, flyers, letters (both typed and autograph), souvenirs, wooden nickels, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographic negatives, advertising novelties, programs, playbills, postcards, notes, autographs, and virtually every other small printed promotional item imaginable. 

Among the performers represented in the collection are Jack Gwynne, Billy Russell, David Copperfield, Siegfried & Roy, Harry Albacker, Thomas Sawyer, Raymond Scheetz, Princess Yvonne, Elmer Ransom, Kohl & Co., Jean Foley, Andrew Galloway, C.A.M.A.S., Frank Furkey, John Henry Grossman (a large file of correspondence), Charles Colta, Hamid Bey, Walter Blaney, The Great Benyon, Dan Witkowski, Carl Williams, Rick Walker, Jean Hugard, the I.B.M., Reveen, Kreskin, Le Grand David, Max Holden, Janos Bartl, Conradi, Max Howard, Ken Klosterman himself, and hundreds more. 

Included in the folders of material are many personal notes of thanks, letters describing the workings of magic tricks, comments on current events, and perhaps even unpublished material.

Also included are a very large quantity of printed items related to the Salon de Magie itself, picturing, describing, and outlining the contents of this important magic collection. 

Decades were required to assemble this massive, well-organized collection of alphabetically arranged paper memorabilia encompassing perhaps 8,000 or 10,000 individual items, filling nearly twenty-five cartons, with hundreds of individually-labeled folders included. EXAMINATION STRONGLY ENCOURAGED; a complete list of subjects and additional information is available on request. 

Condition varies from poor to very good with the bulk of the material intact, well-kept, and well-organized. Objects not checked for completeness or reviewed in their entirety. This collection is not subject to return and is sold as-is.