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Character Portrait of Robert Bloch and Harold Gauer

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Description: This photograph of Bloch and Gauer was taken to illustrate Capital and Labor working together.
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Character Portrait of Robert Bloch and Harold Gauer

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Description: Political photograph of Bloch and Gauer in costume taken to illustrate Capital and Labor working together.
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Campaign Portrait of Fred Clausen

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Description: Image of Clausen for his campaign booklet. It was titled: "Clausen Looks Ahead" or "Clausen Looks to the Future." Gauer noted that it had to be retaken bec...
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Harold Gauer Posing as a Political "Type"

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Description: Gauer as a political player. He is wearing a top hat, holding papers smoking a cigar, and gesturing with his left hand. This photograph was meant to illust...
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Alice Bedard

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Description: Bedard in "exotic" New Year's Eve costume.
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Angie Vail in Exotic Costume

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Description: Another "exotic," "girlie" picture taken of Angie Vail (nee Siajn) in Harold Gauer's Brady Street apartment.
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Victor Ehr and Robert Vail

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Description: Amusing photograph taken to be sold to Smiles magazine. Ehr is selling Vail a bottle marked, "Skull Oil."
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Campaign Photograph of Carter Wells

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Description: Carter Wells polling on the street, taken for a campaign booklet. He was running for 5th district congress.
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Mayor Carl Zeidler

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Description: Newly elected mayor, Carl Zeidler, with the "braintrust," of Harold Gauer and Robert Bloch, that put him there. The "boys" are congratulating him on his vi...
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The Gang at Mid-Summer Festival

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Description: Principals at the "Mid-Summer Festival." Festival was the precursor of what would become Summerfest. The gang went to the festival to "blow off steam" afte...
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Milt Polland on Phone

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Description: A record photograph of Polland when Gauer was working for him during the war.
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Portrait of Charles Bensen

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Description: Bensen was the head of the Milwaukee Press Club. Pose was supposed to be an imitation of someone's "look" who was a newsman.
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Tom Amlie, his Wife, and Doctor Newberry

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Description: In the yard of Tom Amlie. Photograph was to be used for campaign literature. Newberry was a volunteer.
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Henry Reuss Campaign Photograph

Date: 1952
Description: Reuss on his front porch. Photograph was to be used for campaign literature. Reuss had just returned from government service in Europe post World War II.
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Portrait of Myron Gordon

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Description: Portrait of Gordon was taken for campaign literature during his race for judge with Hedding. Gordon won. Robert Bloch and Harold Gauer represented Gordon a...
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Tom Amlie at Typewriter

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Description: Photograph of Amlie working at a desk. The photograph was taken for his race with Smith in the Racine district.
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Tom Amlie and Doctor Newberry

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Description: Tom Amlie. and volunteer Doctor Newberry, at Amlie's home. Photograph was to be used in campaign literature.
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Milt Polland

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Description: Polland at the Mid-Summer Festival on the Milwaukee lakefront, with the boys of Nick Ehr family in the foreground. This was just after the successful Zeidl...
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Comic Portrait of Ed Sachs, Harold Gauer, and D. Reid Ross

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Description: Humorous picture of the "Joe Must Go" group in funny outfits sitting on a stairway. The "Joe Must Go" group was trying to get enough signatures to get Joe ...
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John Bohn

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Description: Taken as a possible campaign photograph, this is a picture of Mayor John Bohn, who replaced Carl Zeidler when he left for World War II. Bohn was then reele...

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