11/04/2026 09:50 AM EST
C.A George Newmann (1882-1952) was a pioneering mentalist and hypnotist. While there is much to be said about his trailblazing career, today we’re focusing on George Newmann the collector. Or more specifically, the scrapbooker. Newmann’s career spanned more than forty years, and for much of that time he was an avid collector of texts on magic, conjuring, mentalism, and hypnotism. Among his vast library were hundreds of scrapbooks that Newmann meticulously clipped, crafted, and compiled by hand. The Library of Congress holds over 100 of these scrapbooks in the McManus-Young Collection. This blog post provides an overview of Newmann’s reputation as a book collector and offers a closer look at his scrapbooks.
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