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Woman with Lace Collar

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Description: Studio portrait of a seated woman with a wide lace collar over a puffy-sleeved blouse, and a ribbon in her hair. Possibly Oce Thompson Lozier, the daughter...
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Two Women Wearing Hats

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Description: Studio portrait of two seated women wearing large hats. They are both wearing belts over their dresses, and the woman on the right has a large lace collar.
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Woman Wearing Hat

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Description: Studio portrait of a seated woman in front of a painted backdrop. She is wearing a hat and holding an umbrella in her right hand, possibly Effie Memholtz.
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Two Girls Wearing Hats and Coats

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Description: Studio portrait of two girls wearing winter coats, gloves, and hats in front of a painted backdrop.
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Girl in White Dress

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Description: Studio portrait of a girl standing in a white dress, holding up a part of her dress and resting her hand on a chair in front of a painted backdrop.
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Baby Sitting in Bowl

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Description: Studio portrait of a baby with bare feet sitting in a bowl in front of a painted backdrop.
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Passenger Pigeon in Nest

Date: 1896
Description: Profile view of a passenger pigeon, a species now extinct, sitting in a nest within foliage. Part of a group of pigeons that lived in captivity in the avia...
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Log Cabin

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Description: Log cabin in Northern Wisconsin.
Drawing

View in the Dalles of the St. Louis River

Date: 10 1875
Description: Engraved view of the Dalles of the St. Louis River in Minnesota.
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Soldiers in WWI

Date: 1918
Description: African American soldiers during World War I playing trombone music.
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Keshena Baseball Team

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Description: Group portrait of the Kenshena Baseball team with a bat boy in the foreground.
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Portrait of Nicholas M. Keeley

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Description: Studio portrait of Nicholas M. Keeley, proprietor of Keeley, Neckerman dry goods store. For many years the store was located at 15 North Pinckney Street.
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Tahiti Party

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Description: Party at Bob Vails on Milwaukee's South side near Allen Bradley. They made use of their costume "stash" to host a Tahiti party.
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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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