magician

9 photos and 4 illustrations tagged magician, from 6 members of Flickr Commons.

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Clown forehead

  • Camilo Marin said:
    date?
  • Pau said:
    graciosa imagen!
  • hallbe said:
    I had to dress him up a bit! ;-) www.sumo.fm/#image/id=2070320
  • Philip David Treece said:
    This is a press shot of the magician Carlton, known as The Human Hairpin. His autobiography can be found online here: archive.org/details/twentyyearsofspo00carl This shot is used on page 21 of his book.

Harry Houdin, entertainer, 1863 / photographer unknown

  • kicksonrt66 said:
    There's magic! Harry Houdini was born 11 years after this was taken. Maybe best to take it as written, with out the last "i"
  • State Library of New South Wales said:
    Thanks for the tip, kicksonrt66 - our fault! This Harry Houdin was a 'polynational mimic' who entertained audiences with his ability to imitate accents and national characteristics, as well as 'drawing room magic'. nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39556993
  • Mich said:
    Harry Houdini named himself after this guy, he was so impressed.
  • Interval Magic said:
    To mich_sydney_2007: Actually, that's not true. Houdini named himself after Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, a pioneering French conjurer of the 19th century. As a child, Houdini (whose real name was Ehrich Weiss) read Robert-Houdin's memoirs, idolized the man, and thought that adding an "i" to the end of Houdin meant to be "like Houdin," and thus the name Houdini was born. Harry Houdin, the man in the photo above, claimed to be Robert-Houdin's nephew.

Acrobat and magician Long Tack Sam with his company of artists

  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Woah QM!! Very cool. So exciting when these discoveries are made and we can put names to faces! :) Good luck with the narrowing down! ;)
  • Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:
    Check out this great graphic novel style film made by Sam's great-granddaughter! youtu.be/5S13dnw_sLU
  • covid convict said:
    trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/246729820 - they're reading the Sydney Daily Telegraph, 23rd March, 1936...
  • Flickr Foundation said:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Tack_Sam