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Garland at West Salem Family Home

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Description: Informal portrait of writer Hamlin Garland at his family home in West Salem. The woman with him has been tentatively identified as his daughter, Mary Isabe...
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SOL Group Photograph

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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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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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Group Picture: Frat Party

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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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Portrait of Harold Gauer and Robert Bloch

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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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Portrait of Robert Bloch: Cowboy

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Description: Bloch dressed as a cowboy.
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Portrait of Robert Bloch: Eating in Fraternity Garb

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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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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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Robert Bloch: "Slack-Jawed" in Top Hat

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Description: Bloch as a "slack-jawed" businessman type. This was used repeatedly for the scrapbooks and other things. On the wall a small American flag is propped on th...
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Robert Bloch Posing as a Sheriff

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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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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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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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Character Portrait of Harold Gauer, Robert Bloch, and James Doolittle

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Description: War satire photograph of Gauer, Bloch, and Doolittle.
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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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August Derleth and Group

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Description: Wisconsin writer August Derleth, wearing a boldly patterned sweater and sitting with an unidentified group on a lawn in front of a house. Probably friends ...
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Alice Kent Trimpey

Date: 1930
Description: A portrait of the photographer's wife, Alice Kent Trimpey, sitting. Mrs. Trimpey was an authority on antiques and antique dolls.
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Mrs. Alice Kent Trimpey

Date: 1920
Description: Portrait of Alice Kent Trimpey, an authority and writer on American decorative arts and historic dolls.

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