$900
Travers, Roland. Archive of Roland Travers’ personal papers and correspondence. Including a TLS from Harry Blackstone, another from Howard Thurston, and autographs of famous magicians and celebrities (Sophie Tucker, Sally Rand), photographs of Travers (one a lovely cabinet card), programs, autographed portraits of other magicians inscribed to Travers, and more. Together with an archive of geneological and personal paperwork related to Travers’ family, some of which dates to the 1860s. 1860s - 1960s. Condition generally good. Roland Travers was a vaudeville magician with his own show. He invented an illusion in which a woman vanished from the top of a ladder at the center of the stage. Today, however, he is best remembered as a trusted assistant to the two greatest female magicians of the 20th century, Adelaide Herrmann and Dell O’Dell. He lived in New York City where he was a fixture on the local magic scene until his unexpected death in 1970. His father was an attorney who enlisted in the Union Army in 1864 at the age of 14, and was discharged at the end of the Civil War. War documents from that period are also present.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2014-04-26
