Occult science

Scrapbook assembled by an anonymous person and/or Harry Houdini. Newspaper clippings on spiritualism and the occult are pasted on an old manuscript correspondence record; the clippings are dated between 1871 and 1892, what is still visible of the manuscripts have the dates of 1872 and 1873. The ms. record is of a building or roofing bids, with the letters signed C.W. Cumins (or Cummins), Brooklyn, and sometimes signed for F[rank] W. Doughty.