PVD1693269: Harry Houdini cannot escape the hold of boxer Benny Leonard and Jack Dempsey prepare to swing. Houdini claimed he could withstand any blow to his stomach. His death from a ruptured appendix followed the punches he accepted from a McGill University student, H. Gordon Whitehead, ca. 1920, Bain, George Grantham - Bain News Service (1865-1944) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2936938: Germans in Hoboken, New Jersey, rounded up for deportation during World War I. Of the approximately 3 million Americas of German birth, 5000 were subjected to internment or deportation. Many others were subjected to harassment and pressure to 'Americanize.' 1917-18, Bain, George Grantham - Bain News Service (1865-1944) / Bridgeman Images