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HOUDINI, Harry (Erik Weisz, 1874 – 1926). Houdini Overboard Packing Box Escape Press Photo. New York: Dietz, 1914. Large-format photograph depicts the first stages of Houdini’s overboard packing box escape. A block and tackle lower a heavy wooden crate outfitted with weights into New York’s East River. Jim Collins, Houdini’s trusted assistant, helps guide the box. With Houdini’s copyright notice in the lower left. Studio stamp (scratched out) to verso, and rubber stamp reading “Harry Houdini,” above and below penciled notation reading, “Journal / Sat.” Framed with glass on both sides; wear and soiling visible, but not examined out of frame. RARE.