Sunday, May 13, 2018

Here's to the moms

Here's a great image of Bess Houdini with her mother, Balbina Rahner, and mother-in-law, Cecelia Weiss, in 1909. The Houdinis took their mothers to Europe that year. By all accounts the two moms, who were both German-speaking widows with seven children, got along extremely well.

Happy Mother's Day.

Photo from Houdini His Legend and His Magic by Doug Henning.

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3 comments:

  1. That's quite a hat Bess is wearing.

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  2. Yeah that's her Derby hat, Happy Mother's day to all you mothers out there also.

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  3. Thanks, great image. They must've had some very interesting conversations.

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