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[Houdini exposes psychic fraud] – Historic Reproduction

[Houdini exposes psychic fraud], [1925] — historic photograph
[Houdini exposes psychic fraud], [1925]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The setting here is the Keith-Albee New York Hippodrome, one of the largest theaters in the city, where Harry Houdini staged his public exposés of spiritualist mediums in 1925. By then he had spent years attacking fraudulent psychics, attending séances, and publishing his findings, including the book *A Magician Among the Spirits* (1924). Stage demonstrations like this one turned his skepticism into a popular spectacle, drawing crowds who were fascinated by both the magic and the argument that séance phenomena could be reproduced by trickery.

Created / published[1925]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1920-1930.
SubjectsHoudini, Harry,--1874-1926--Performances. Keith-Albee's New York Hippodrome--1920-1930. Fraud--New York (State)--New York--1920-1930. Spiritualism--New York (State)--New York--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,223 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-140690

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