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HOUDINI, Harry (Erik Weisz, 1874 – 1926). Houdini Straitjacket Police Challenge. Atlantic City, 1916. Letterpress handbill/challenge issued to Houdini by the police department of Atlantic City, New Jersey, who will secure Houdini in a straitjacket and “lash your ankles together”; Houdini will then escape from the jacket while suspended “head foremost from the tower at Keith’s Theatre on the Garden Pier.” Framed together with a later printed photograph of the escape, to 19 ½ x 10”; challenge 7 ½ x 6”. Corner stains visible; not examined out of frame.