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| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Stereograph portrait of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., taken during his senior year at the University of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Copy of a family portrait that includes a father, daughter and three sons. Two people on the right are only partially visible. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a butcher wearing an apron, and holding a cleaver and saw. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of two women wearing white pointed hats and long, white dresses with fluffy collars, and broad white belts. They stand their backs to the c... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of a small Ho-Chunk boy posing standing in front of a painted backdrop and a prop stone wall. He has his left arm resting on the wall, and ... |
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| Description: | Ray Bradbury came to Milwaukee to visit Bloch. They went to the Gauer "Lab" on Brady Street and they decided to dress him for a photograph. |
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| Description: | Editor of Amazing Stories. Photographed in the waiting room of the offices in Chicago for the scrapbooks. Gauer thinks this really improved his self... |
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| Description: | Bloch dressed as a "laborer," worried about what he would do for a living if he couldn't write. The photograph was taken for the "History" scrapbook. |
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| Description: | A burlesque of the Bloch's marriage, taken shortly after the real ceremony. Left to right: Robert Vail, Robert Bloch, and Marion Bloch. Gauer said at the t... |
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| Description: | Bloch in a pensive pose pondering his recent actions of leaving the Gus Marx agency and moving to Weyawega, Wisconsin (his wife's hometown), to concentrate... |
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| Description: | Bloch indulging himself while dressed in humorous garb as a fraternity brother. Taken as an illustration for a fraternity article in Smiles magazine... |
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| Description: | Bloch as a monster character, possibly for use in Brutal magazine or the scrapbooks. Taken at the Brady Street Lab. Gauer--this might just be a file... |
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| Description: | Portrait of Gauer at typewriter in the Brady Street "Lab. A similar one was taken of Bloch, then one was reversed and printed together to show Bloch and Ga... |
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| Description: | Sinister photograph of Bloch conjuring "spirits" from a smoking chamber pot. The image was leter retouched with horror faces double printed into the smoke. |
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| Description: | For Smiles magazine. Playing a political rumor monger, in character clothes. |
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| Description: | Bloch playing the character part of a candidate for sheriff to illustrate a possible book on political "types." |
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| Description: | Humorous photograph of Gauer hawking his just published book: "How to Win in Politics." He is standing in front of a wall with multiple copies of a small s... |
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| Description: | This photograph of Bloch and Gauer was taken to illustrate Capital and Labor working together. |
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