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Gelatin silver print - Harry Houdini performing a Straitjacket Escape | McCord Museum
Harry Houdini performing a Straitjacket Escape
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Harry Houdini performing a Straitjacket Escape
You can freely copy, modify and distribute this image, even for commercial purposes. Need more information about image licensing or a higher resolution image? Read our Photographic Services and Copyright page.

Gelatin silver print

Harry Houdini performing a Straitjacket Escape
Photographer
SignatureStamped on back, c. : Courtesy of Credit / Will be Appreciated / WHITE STUDIO / N.Y.
Period Début 20e siècle
Medium / Technique Silver salts on paper
Gelatin silver process
Dimensions24 × 19,1 cm
ClassificationCommunication Objects - Documentary Objects - Graphic Documents
Origin New York, New York, United States
Object NumberM2014.128.703.30
DivisionPhotography - Documentary Collection
CollectionMcCord
CreditPurchase, funds graciously donated by La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso

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Online Collections | McCord Museum - Montreal Social History Museum
Harry Houdini performing a straitjacket escape, New York, NY, about 1920
Gelatin silver print
Harry Houdini performing a straitjacket escape, New York, NY, about 1920
White Studio
about 1920
M2014.128.673.2
Harry Houdini performing a Straitjacket Escape
Gelatin silver print
Harry Houdini performing a Straitjacket Escape
Gasquet Photo
M2014.128.703.31
Chiefs of Police and Harry Houdini during a performance of the Straitjacket Escape, Oakland, CA, 1923
Gelatin silver print
Chiefs of Police and Harry Houdini during a performance of the Straitjacket Escape, Oakland, CA, 1923
Inconnu / Unknown
1923
M2014.128.703.32
Harry Houdini in "The Grim Game", about 1919
Gelatin silver print
Harry Houdini in "The Grim Game", about 1919
White Studio
About 1919
M2014.128.703.41
Portrait of Harry Houdini in Weed Chains, New York, before 1908
Photographic print
Portrait of Harry Houdini in Weed Chains, New York, before 1908
White Studio
about 1908
M2014.128.640
Houdini swims river in scene from "The man from beyond", about 1921
Gelatin silver print
Houdini swims river in scene from "The man from beyond", about 1921
White Studio
About 1921
M2014.128.703.42
Houdini with police officers in scene from "The Grim Game", about 1919
Gelatin silver print
Houdini with police officers in scene from "The Grim Game", about 1919
White Studio
About 1919
M2014.128.703.43
Assistants strapping Harry Houdini into straitjacket for a stunt on top of a railroad car, Cleveland, Ohio, 1915
Gelatin silver print
Assistants strapping Harry Houdini into straitjacket for a stunt on top of a railroad car, Cleveland, Ohio, 1915
Inconnu / Unknown
M2014.128.702.142
Harry Houdini hangs suspended upside-down over a street in a Straitjacket
Gelatin silver print
Harry Houdini hangs suspended upside-down over a street in a Straitjacket
Inconnu / Unknown
M2014.128.702.143
Harry Houdini escaping from a straitjacket in Cleveland, Ohio, 1915
Gelatin silver print
Harry Houdini escaping from a straitjacket in Cleveland, Ohio, 1915
Inconnu / Unknown
M2014.128.702.141
Harry Houdini hangs suspended upside-down over a street in a Straitjacket, Washington, DC, 1922
Gelatin silver print
Harry Houdini hangs suspended upside-down over a street in a Straitjacket, Washington, DC, 1922
Inconnu / Unknown
M2014.128.702.146
Harry Houdini hangs suspended upside-down over a street in a Straitjacket, Washington, DC, 1922
Gelatin silver print
Harry Houdini hangs suspended upside-down over a street in a Straitjacket, Washington, DC, 1922
Inconnu / Unknown
M2014.128.702.147

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