Houdini – Historic Print
(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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Houdini comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Houdini
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Harry Houdini, the escape artist and illusionist, is the figure named in this glass negative, one of the many portraits and stage subjects that the Bain News Service made and kept in its files. The record gives no date, and the title comes from unverified notes written by the agency on the negative or its caption card, so the exact occasion is uncertain. Bain News Service, founded by George Grantham Bain in New York around 1899, supplied news photographs to newspapers, and Houdini was a headline performer in that period, known for chains, locked trunks and water tanks. The glass plate format of the collection is itself worth noticing, since it preserves fine detail from the early twentieth century.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,779 × 4,228 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-40548 |
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