This full page from the June 18, 1899 San Francisco Examiner shows Houdini escaping from a roped chair. Some of these photos have never been subsequently published. This ran at the conclusion of Houdini's breakout two week engagement at San Francisco's Orpheum Theatre on O'Farrell St. For more about this seminal time in Houdini's life and career, check out my post: Houdini in 1899.
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