Harry Houdini is most often remembered as an escape ... handcuffs and locked trunks in vaudeville shows beginning in the 1890's. “His name constantly comes up in popular culture any time someone ...

Illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini the day he performed his famous stunt in which he was submerged in the East River in a crate and escaped in just under a minute on July 7th 1912 in New ...

RELATED: When Harry met Edna ... artisans who worked there and learned secrets of the trade. Houdini took his stage name in 1890 after reading the autobiography of French magician Jean-Eugene ...

The period from 1890 to 1929 was the so-called golden age of magic in America, when Houdini, Thurston, Chicago native Harry Blackstone Sr., and others drew crowds to vaudeville houses and major ...

One of the most well-known stunts of famed illusionist Harry Houdini, remembered for his escape acts, was the milk can escape, first performed in 1908 at the Columbia Theater in St. Louis.

An incredible collection of hand-signed letters by world-famous illusionist Harry Houdini has come up for sale for a staggering $50,000. The globally-recognized Hungarian-American magician was ...

DETROIT – On Oct. 24, 1926, the legendary magician Harry Houdini performed what would be his final show before his untimely death at a Detroit hospital. Houdini was 52 years old when he ...

Escape artist Harry Houdini died on Halloween in 1926 at age 52 Emily Blackwood is a writer and editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously appeared in ...