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Wright Passport Photograph

Date: 07 10 1956
Description: Unretouched passport photograph in front of a painted backdrop of Frank Lloyd Wright. He is holding a cane on his left arm and has a hat on his lap.
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Wright Passport Photograph

Date: 07 10 1956
Description: Unretouched passport photograph of Frank Lloyd Wright. He is holding a cane under his left arm.
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Sheep Shearing Contest

Date: 1951
Description: Winner Melvin Walker at work during a sheep shearing competition.
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Factory Worker at Rock Falls Works

Date: 1944
Description: Factory worker at International Harvester's Rock Falls Works.
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Scale at Rock Falls Works

Date: 1944
Description: Factory worker weighing parts on a scale at International Harvester's Rock Falls Works.
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Portrait of Lumberjack

Date: 1900
Description: Studio portrait of a lumberjack wearing a hat, fringed shirt, trousers, suspenders, and what appear to be spiked boots. He is holding a peavey and is posin...
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Portrait of Harold Gauer: Mad Scientist

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Description: Gauer with his "personality made" skull. Gauer caption: Mad scientist, and he was plenty sore too.
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Portrait of Harold Gauer: Mad Scientist

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Description: Harold Gauer as a mad scientist. Photograph stems from Gauer's work with an insurance agency and his part time testing of urine for policy purposes and lif...
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Bloch Family on Porch

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Description: Robert Bloch and his family pose on their second floor porch at the flat they rented at 2626B Maryland Avenue. This was during Bloch's work at the Marx age...
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Portrait of Robert Bloch: Monster

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Description: Bloch dressed as a monster. Possibly taken for Brutal magazine or the scrapbooks.
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Portrait of Robert Bloch: Behind Fantstic Magazine

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Description: Bloch wearing a top hat and reading one of his published stories in Fantastic magazine. This is not a Gauer photograph, but a copy of a negative of ...
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Portait of Harold Gauer and Robert Bloch: Geekmaster and Geek

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Description: Bloch dressed as the "Geekmaster" and Gauer as the "Geek." Gauer is "geeking" a wooden snake in the photograph. It was to be used to illustrate an unpublis...
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Harold Gauer at the Wisconsin State Capitol

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Description: Gauer in Madison in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol after speaking with the Governor on CARE business.
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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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Robert Bloch as a "Political Type"

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Description: A series of photographs taken to illustrate "political types." On the wall behind him a small American flag is propped on the apartment intercom.
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Mandu the Magician

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Description: Doc Mann of Beloit, Wisconsin, who performed novelty entertainment and "top hat magic" as Mandu the magician.
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Alfred Hitchcock on Set

Date: 1940
Description: Alfred Hitchcock is seen on the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." He stands in front of the camera which is on a dolly. The cameraman looks at Hitc...

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