Starting in circa 1850, the Maryland Historical Society (MdHS) photographic collection contains well over one million items including daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, cartes-de-visite, albumen prints, salted paper prints, acetate negatives, and more. Photographs are part of MdHS's Special Collections Department, H. Furlong Baldwin Library.
Digital reproductions of originals are property of MdHS. For image reproduction and permission info: MdHS Imaging Services. Feel free to share these images with proper citation.
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Curated by Jennifer A. Ferretti (former Curator of Photographs, MdHS). I am not an MdHS employee and in no way represent the institution. All views are my own.
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Crowd watching Harry Houdini
Charles Street, Baltimore
April 26, 1916
Unidentified photographer
8 x 10 inch glass negative
Baltimore City Life Museum Collection
Maryland Historical Society
1985.26.21
Over 500,000 people gathered in front of the Sun Building to watch Harry Houdini hang upside-down, 50 feet above the ground, for the two and a half minutes it took for him to escape from a straitjacket.
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