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Gelatin silver print - Harry Houdini producing ectoplasmic spirit | McCord Museum
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Harry Houdini producing ectoplasmic spirit

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 producing ectoplasmic spirit
Photographer
SignatureNon signé / Unsigned
InscriptionsHandwritten on back, c.l. : Houdini / producing / ectoplasmic / spirit
Period 20e siècle
Medium / Technique Silver salts on paper
Gelatin silver process
Dimensions8,3 × 14,1 cm
ClassificationCommunication Objects - Documentary Objects - Graphic Documents
Object NumberM2014.128.702.52
DivisionPhotography - Documentary Collection
CollectionMcCord
CreditPurchase, funds graciously donated by La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso
Status
Not on view

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Harry Houdini with spirits, about 1924
Inconnu / Unknown
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Harry Houdini with spirits, about 1924
Gelatin silver print
Harry Houdini with spirits, about 1924
Inconnu / Unknown
About 1924
M2014.128.703.25
Harry Houdini with spirits
Gelatin silver print
Harry Houdini with spirits
Inconnu / Unknown
M2014.128.702.24
Harry Houdini with the self-styled "spirit photographer" Alexander Martin, about 1920
Gelatin silver print
Harry Houdini with the self-styled "spirit photographer" Alexander Martin, about 1920
Inconnu / Unknown
About 1920
M2014.128.703.12
Publicity poster for Harry Houdini magic show "Do Spirits Return?" at Lyceum Theatre (Paterson, New Jersey), after 1909
Colour transparency
Publicity poster for Harry Houdini magic show "Do Spirits Return?" at Lyceum Theatre (Paterson, New Jersey), after 1909
Inconnu / Unknown
M2014.128.702.60
Prospectus announcing the book "A Magician Among the Spirits," by Harry Houdini
Brochure
Prospectus announcing the book "A Magician Among the Spirits," by Harry Houdini
after 1924
M2014.128.702.111
The Adventure of the Ectoplasmic Man: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
Book
The Adventure of the Ectoplasmic Man: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
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1985
M2014.128.846
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Cartoon
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Garnotte
2008
M2011.90.405
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Magic poster
Magician producing roses from cone
Adolph Friedländer
1913
M2014.128.502
Image Not Availablefor Houdini's spirit, appearing at his gravesite at the Machpelah Cemetery, New York, NY, 1954
Gelatin silver print
Houdini's spirit, appearing at his gravesite at the Machpelah Cemetery, New York, NY, 1954
Irving Desfor
1954
M2014.128.703.65
Houdini holding a spirit trumpet with reformed medium Mrs. Benninghofen, Chicago, IL, 1926
Gelatin silver print
Houdini holding a spirit trumpet with reformed medium Mrs. Benninghofen, Chicago, IL, 1926
Butler Photography
About 1926
M2014.128.703.23
Houdini holding a spirit trumpet with reformed medium Mrs. Benninghofen, Chicago, IL, 1926
Gelatin silver print
Houdini holding a spirit trumpet with reformed medium Mrs. Benninghofen, Chicago, IL, 1926
Butler Photography
About 1926
M2014.128.703.22

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