Princess Yvonne’s own massive scrapbook. 1930s

[Scrapbook] Princess Yvonne’s own scrapbook of performance ephemera, 1930 – 34. Containing approximately 500 pieces, including posters, window cards, photographs, broadsides, handbills, leaflets, tickets, fortune-telling question slips, clipped newspaper and magazine briefs, articles, and advertisements for the “psychic marvel” and “mentalist supreme”, all neatly kept in a black buckram folio (15 x 13”), her name lettered in gold on front and ex-libris label on front pastedown; some personal ephemera including a 1931 TLS from Harry Blackstone, then- Entertainment Committee member of the I.M.C., inviting Yvonne and partner Doc Irving to perform at the organization’s First Annual Conclave, Irving’s certificate of election to the I.B.M., and two blank performance contracts; the remainder of the scrapbook containing ephemera assembled chronologically, documenting Yvonne’s performances across Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, New Jersey, Connecticut and elsewhere on numerous stages; photographs include Yvonne reading beside an astrological wheel, blindfolded before a crowd gathered outside the offices of The Troy Times, and of a theater marquee and window display for “The Girl with 1000 Eyes”; several different folded one-sheet posters and window cards, some laid down; dozens of handbills and broadsides, many pictorial; and hundreds of clippings containing regional performance previews, accounts, and publicity. Most pages disbound and edges crumbling; individual pieces in general