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HOUDINI, Harry (Erik Weisz, 1874 – 1926). Houdini Inter Ocean Photo Album. Small oblong photo album with blind stamped front wrapper holding six mounted silver gelatin print photographs of Harry Houdini and his wife Beatrice aboard the S.S. Imperator on their journey to Europe commencing from America on August 30, 1913. The photographs depict Beatrice Houdini posing together with her husband on the ship’s deck, and the Houdini’s in the company of the famed Aviator Glenn Curtiss and Curtiss’s wife. The final image shows three men asleep on the deck with Houdini’s handwritten note identifying one of them as “Mrs. Leslie Carter’s Husband.” Images 4 x 5”. ALL SIX PHOTOGRAPHS BEAR BEATRICE HOUDINI’S INKED NOTATIONS. The front wrapper also bears inked notations in Bess Houdini’s hand identifying the date of the trip and the vessel on which the couple sailed. A rare and personal keepsake from the Houdini family’s own files. Houdini sailed on the Imperator more than once, most famously in the company of President Teddy Roosevelt. The German-made vessel was part of the Hamburg-America Line and at the time of its construction was the largest passenger liner in the world.