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Leonard, Com'r. Daley, Dempsey, Billy Gibson, Jack Kearns & Houdini (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded August 2024
Houdini (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded May 2024
Perma_000035 Permann Collection from SDASM Archives uploaded June 2021
Houdini jumps from Harvard Bridge, Boston, Massachusetts (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded May 2018
Harry Houdini and Police from SDASM Archives uploaded November 2011
Houdini airborne in his Voisin at Diggers Rest, 1910, by Marcel Poupe from State Library of New South Wales uploaded March 2011
Houdini (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded August 2008
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Leonard, Com'r. Daley, Dempsey, Billy Gibson, Jack Kearns & Houdini (LOC)
- Richard Norton said:
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- Jon (LOC P&P) said:
Houdini (LOC)
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swanq said:
Looks to be with same people as
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swanq said:
One possibility is described in The Star and Newark Advertiser. August 31, 1908, EVENING EDITION, page 1, column 4
- chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn91064009/1908-08-31/ed-...
'"Houdini," who has made manacles look like playthings on the stage, gave a big open-air and free exhibition today by leaping from the Jackson street bridge Into the Passaic Rlver. Several
thousand persons who witnessed the act did not wonder so much that he freed himself from the heavy irons which seemingly bound him—for he has done that many times before—but how a normal person could stay beneath the surface of the Passaic river flfty-four seconds, and come up alive was a puzzle.'
But commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HoudiniSubmergedCrate.jpg...
suggests a date of 1912 for this picture and that he was submerged, with manacles on hands and feet, in a crate -- and escaped.
The Washington Times. August 22, 1912, LAST EDITION, Page 8, top of column 4
- chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1912-08-22/ed-...
reports that he did such a trick at a party in Newport, RI, but that ropes tied by other guests were used instead of chains.
According to New-York Tribune. July 08, 1912, Page 2, near bottom of column 5,
- chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1912-07-08/ed-...
he performed the trick with chains and a crate in the East River in New York City. -
swanq said:
The July 1912 event seems likely to be the answer.
See www.wildabouthoudini.com/2018/07/houdini-first-went-overb...
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New York Times. July 8, 1912, Page 6
- timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/07/08/11003725...
"THROWN OVERBOARD MANACLED IN A BOX; Houdini Bobs Up Smiling in the Harbor, the Box Being Unopened and Still Nailed and Roped."
Houdini (LOC)
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Nathan Adams said:
The obligatory Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Houdini
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In Memoriam: budderflyman said:
Is this when he was submerged into the Detroit River and he escaped from a locked trunk underwater? He really was an exceptional escape artist. They say that he hid a pack of lock picks and keys in his underwear.
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Emily Liebenow said:
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Old fashioned lovers, and we'd love to have this added to the group!