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| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length publicity portrait of renowned escape artist Harry Houdini. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini. |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini in chains and ropes. He is tied to a wheel on a locomotive. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini in a scene from the silent motion picture, "The Grim Game." |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Harry and Bess (Beatrice) Houdini in formal attire, the year of his death from acute appendicitis. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Escape artist Harry Houdini being tortured by cannibals in the silent film "Terror Island." Like the other films in which Houdini stared, the plot was desi... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Ben Bergor, a Madison magician, receiving the Houdini Award from the widow of Harry Houdini. Behind him is the trunk from which Bergor had escaped, and fou... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Beatrice Houdini presenting the Houdini Award Album to Ben Bergor, a Madison magician. The award was made annually by the Houdini Club of Wisconsin to... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini, world famous escape artist who spent his boyhood in Appleton, Wisconsin, sitting in a chair wrapped in chains in a scene from the silent fil... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini, the well-known escape artist, was born in Budapest, Hungary and raised in Appleton, Wisconsin. At the time of his immigration his name was s... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini, born Erik Weisz in Hungary and raised as Erich Weiss in Appleton, Wisconsin, preparing to do one of his famous escapes, this time from a sub... |
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| Description: | View from street of Madison magician Ben Bergor being raised feet first (upside down) and in a straightjacket to perform an escape act outside a LaCrosse, ... |
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