![]() And perhaps metaphorically: from his status as an immigrant, from poverty, from obscurity. It was, of course, a time before television, before most people had gone to the movies, before most people even had radios.īut-” self-liberator”? Yes: he’d “liberated” himself from rivers he’d jumped into while handcuffed and shackled, out of padlocked trunks and milk cans…. Harry Houdini was indeed (and justly) world-famous, the most renowned magician of an era-the 1890s to the 1920s-when magicians were revered entertainers. “Houdini, the Justly World-Famous Self-Liberator!” shouted a poster for Winnipeg’s Orpheum Theatre in about 1915. Images, film clips, and artifacts from the life of Harry HoudiniĬontemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco ![]() ![]() Photo courtesy of Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Librar y Studio image of Houdini in chains, circa 1905
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