Harry Houdini - his professional name - was born as Erik Weisz ... from 1926 to the present day. "If anyone has any posters, programmes or other artefacts relating to the society, we would love to see ...

Prints & Photographs Division, Arnold Genthe Collection, LC-G3999-0049-A (b&w glass neg.), Library of Congress Jack London and Harry Houdini were two of the most remarkable Americans of the early ...

Ehrich Weiss (Harry Houdini) born to Rabbi Mayer Samuel Weiss and his wife Cecelia on March 24 in Budapest, Hungary. At age nine, Ehrich and some neighborhood friends establish a five-cent circus.

Erik Weisz, better known professionally as the great escapologist, illusionist and stunt performer Harry Houdini, had many links with Ireland. He first came to public attention in vaudeville in ...