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| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | William C. Klatt, member of the Menomonie High School class of 1905, depicted as a physician operating on a disembodied head. Darkroom manipulation was use... |
| Date: | 02 18 1948 |
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| Description: | Three University of Wisconsin co-eds sporting "outsize" beauty spots lampooning a fad that is sweeping the country for a stye show sponsored by the Univers... |
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| Description: | While waiting for the dentist, William Powell and Robert Bloch pre-enact the struggle. Both Bloch and Gauer had many medical emergencies in their lives due... |
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| Description: | Party picture. They are making fun of their pal 'Lucky" Demo's band. |
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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 and Bloch reacting to Ruess's campaign defeat. Gauer worked full time on the campaign, but Bloch was an occasional help. According to Gauer, Ruess wa... |
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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: | One of a series of humorous photographs of a billiards match Gauer was trying to market to a magazine. Eventually sold to Cheers magazine. |
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| Description: | Angie Vail and Alice Bedard pose in an attempt to break up a staged fight between Robert Vail and Sprague Vonier, while Harold Gauer lies on the ground und... |
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| Description: | A close-up of a human foot with a sprung "Sure Catch" mousetrap on the big toe. |
| Date: | 08 1914 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of an 85-year-old Ho-Chunk man, White Rabbit Longtail, posing standing and smiling while pretending to scalp his friend, C.A. L... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Four war correspondents pose for a gag photo. Identified (left to right) Frank Morris, Collier's Magazine; Harold Smith, Chicago Tribune; Ray... |
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| Description: | Actor Neville Brand, director Don Siegel, and another actor joke around on the set of the film "Riot in Cell Block 11." Brand holds Siegel as the other act... |
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| Description: | Portrait of a man sitting indoors in a chair with his eyes closed. A bottle is resting on his shoulder, and a sign has been placed on his lap that reads: "... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two men and two women in a dramatic pose. The woman in the center has her head in a noose and is sticking... |
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| Description: | Sid, with a cigar in his mouth, a metal lampshade on his head, and wearing a backpack, is laying across two desks in an office with a broom in his arms as ... |
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| Description: | Close-up of a man's shoe treading on someone's hand holding a cigar butt on the ground, with a shadow casting on the wall in the background. On the ground ... |
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| Description: | Sid Boyum, with a cigar in his mouth, "shoots" pool with a rifle at a local bar. |
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| Description: | Sid bending over a pool table in a game room using a shotgun as a pool cue. He is wearing a hat and has a cigar in his mouth. |
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| Description: | View across curved bar towards Sid and three other men at the Karabis tavern. Sid is laying on top of the bar on his back, with his head resting on a blank... |
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