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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
SignatureL.r. : GASQUET / PHOTO
Period Début 20e siècle
Medium / Technique Silver salts on paper
Gelatin silver process
Dimensions25,5 × 20,3 cm
ClassificationCommunication Objects - Documentary Objects - Graphic Documents
Object NumberM2014.128.703.31
DivisionPhotography - Documentary Collection
CollectionMcCord
CreditPurchase, funds graciously donated by La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso
Status
Not on view

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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
White Studio
M2014.128.703.30
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
Houdini performing one of his infamous "box escapes"
Drawing
Houdini performing one of his infamous "box escapes"
Inconnu / Unknown
M2014.128.707.63
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
Harry Houdini in white trunks escapes from his handcuffs and his leg irons, about 1906
Gelatin silver print
Harry Houdini in white trunks escapes from his handcuffs and his leg irons, about 1906
Inconnu / Unknown
M2014.128.702.140
American actor Tony Curtis freeing himself from a straitjacket on the set of Houdini, 1953
Gelatin silver print
American actor Tony Curtis freeing himself from a straitjacket on the set of Houdini, 1953
Paramount Pictures Corporation
after 1953
M2014.128.703.76
Escape and Survive: The Story of Harry Houdini
Magazine clipping
Escape and Survive: The Story of Harry Houdini
1988
M2014.128.709.31

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