Gelatin silver print - Houdini supporting an anti-fortune telling bill before Congress, Washington, DC, 1926 | McCord Museum

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Gelatin silver print

Houdini supporting an anti-fortune telling bill before Congress, Washington, DC, 1926

Photographer Underwood & Underwood

SignatureStamped on back, c.l. : PHOTOGRAPH BY / UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD / WASHINGTON, D.C. PHOTO SERVICE

InscriptionsHandwritten, u.l. : Houdini; handwritten, l.r. : Mediums / hearing in / Washington, D.C. / May - 1926; handwritten on back (paper), c.r. : Medium[...] / Washington / 1926 / 20 [...]; handwritten on back (card), c. : VIRGIL

Date About 1926

Medium / Technique Silver salts on paper mounted on card
Gelatin silver process

Dimensions16 × 20,7 cm

ClassificationCommunication Objects - Documentary Objects - Graphic Documents

Origin Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Object NumberM2014.128.703.34

DivisionPhotography - Documentary Collection

CollectionMcCord

CreditPurchase, funds graciously donated by La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso

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Fortune Telling: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Judiciary of the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Sixty-ninth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 8989. February 26, May 18, 20, and 21, 1926.

United States Government Printing Office

1926

M2014.128.906