Harry Houdini had issued a challenge to every magician ... of income was cutting silhouettes on Coney Island. A few cents a portrait was enough for him to support his family and pursue his ...

portrait photograph, between 1906 and 1916, 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 ...