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EVB2933900: 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, c. 1920 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2935007: African American day laborer picking cotton on the Resettlement Administration's Lake Dick Cooperative Association in Sept. 1938. Member farmers were white, but hired local African Americans for labor during harvest season. September 1938 photo by Russell Lee, Lee, Russell (1903-86) / Bridgeman Images