Magicians in Life

[Bill Mullins]

Google Books has digitized Life Magazine:

Dunninger

Scarne

Tony Curtis as Houdini

Schulien's Bar

Johnny Carson


There is, no doubt, more to be found.

[Pete McCabe]

You can also search for images from Life Magazine on google, by typing the name of what you want and adding "source:life" to the search string. For example if you search for "John Scarne source:life" you'll get this picture of Scarne testifying before congress.

I'm not sure why this search doesn't bring up other Life Magazine articles, like the one Bill posted. But it's another resource.

[John M. Dale]

Schulien's Bar

Too, cool. I love the pic on page 105 of the Schulien's Bar link. I've never seen a pic of Ballantine doing real magic as opposed to his gag act.

JMD