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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: | 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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| Description: | Making use of Bloch's graduation outfit to photograph a "nutty professor" scene. |
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| Description: | Party picture. They are making fun of their pal 'Lucky" Demo's band. |
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| Description: | The group was trying to illustrate the possible result of them being drafted. Gauer states Bloch was very pessimistic about his chances in the war, and fea... |
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| Description: | Humorous photograph of Koplin, Bloch, and Gauer dressed as college boys wearing letter sweaters that spell out SOL, for shit-outta-luck. Gauer states they ... |
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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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| 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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| 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 fraternity party photographed for Smiles Magazine. Harold Gauer and Alice Bedard sit on a couch while Robert bloch pours a drink for Angie Vail. |
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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 is in Russian garb and Gauer is in just a humorous get-up. The photograph may have been taken for Brutal magazine. The Gauer image was cropped... |
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| Description: | Bloch dressed as a monster. Possibly taken for Brutal magazine or the scrapbooks. |
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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: | 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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| Description: | Group portrait from a humorous "Geek" party in Chester Vonier's county owned barracks. Joe O'Hearn was the editor of Trains magazine, Vonier was nig... |
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| Description: | Costume party at Gauer's home on Downer Avenue. Ruthe Distenfeld owned five appliance stores, Bernice Flower was Forrest Flower's wife (WPA Artist), and Be... |
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