Happy Birthday, Harry Houdini!
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<p>Harry Houdini at the Hotel Shelton in New York, stepping from the coffin after being sealed up for 90 minutes.</p>
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<p>Harry Houdini slipping out of a straitjacket while hanging upside down over 46th and Broadway in Manhattan circa 1915.</p>
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<p>Making an elephant disappear on the New York Hippodrome.</p>
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<p>In the East River!</p>
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<p>With his late assistant, Dorothy Young.</p>
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<p>Houdini's grave site in Queens.</p>
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