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Under Water Packing Crate Escape

Date:	1914
Description:	Harry Houdini, born Erik Weisz in Hungary and raised as Erich Weiss in Appleton, Wisconsin, preparing to do one of his famous escapes, this time from a sub...

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Houdini in Chains

Date:	1919
Description:	Harry Houdini in a scene from the silent motion picture, "The Grim Game."

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