Antique Portrait - New York City - Harry Houdini and Chinese magician

Originally preserved in the Library of Congress, this print of Harry Houdini and Chinese magician Ching Ling Foo, full-length portrait, standing, Brighton Beach, New York is now available for your home or office. The Library has preserved this image as part of its permanent historical collection.

Library of Congress record: Created ca 1912 Ching Ling Foo who proclaimed himself Court Conjurer to the Empress of China, was born in Peking, China in 1854 and died ca. 1922. A superb showman, he performed with great success in the United States, South Africa, and Europe. Included in the presentations of Ching Ling Foo were the production of an enormous bowl of water and the conjuring up of a young Chinese girl. The visual excitement of Ching Ling Foo's routines made Oriental magic so popular that the American magician of Scottish-English descent William Ellsworth Robinson (1861-1918) disguised himself as Chinese. Thus transformed, Robinson, beginning in 1900, regenerated his.

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