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| Description: | A photograph of a "classy" bathroom that was most likely used in either Cheese or Smiles humor magazine to which Harlod Gauer contributed. Th... |
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| Description: | Robert Bloch, wearing a suit and tie, is posed with a cigarette in his right hand. |
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| Description: | Harold Gauer, smoking a pipe, stands shirtless in a clearing surrounded by trees holding a CARE box on top of his head, labeled: "CARE Send a Care Package ... |
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| Description: | Portrait of Gauer at typewriter in the Brady Street "Lab. A similar one was taken of Bloch, then one was reversed and printed together to show Bloch and Ga... |
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| Description: | Harold Gauer and Robert Bloch, both smoking, pose humorously with an unidentified woman who holds a notepad and pen. |
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| Description: | Side view of a man with a goatee smoking a pipe while sitting in a carved chair made of iron and wood. |
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| Description: | A group of fun-loving friends pose together. In the front row, from left to right, are Harold Gauer, Marion Bloch, Victor Ehr, Mary Jo Vonier and Robert Bl... |
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| Description: | Robert Bloch, with cigar, and Robert Vail, holding a pipe. They are both wearing military costumes, staged standing on chairs next to a bed. |
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| Description: | Milt Gelmand and Robert Bloch play a humorous game of pool. From a set of pictures that was eventually sold to Cheers humor magazine. |
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| Description: | Harold Gauer and Robert Bloch stand near a wooden bridge, holding canes, in a wooded area blanketed in snow. There is a hat on top of one of the posts on t... |
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| Description: | Robert Bloch, standing next to shelves of books, in front of a door covered with cardboard. He is wearing the gaudy costume of the King Geek for a photo sh... |
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| Description: | Harold Gauer, wearing makeup, a false nose and smoking a cigar, stands next to Alice Bedard, holding a revolver. They are standing over the body of Robert ... |
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| Description: | Robert Vail, dressed up as a Monk, subtly caresses the thigh of Angie Vail. Vais is smoking and wearing only a tuxedo jacket with a bow tie, hat, and shoes... |
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| Description: | Couple posing outside. Harold Gauer's brother Norman with his "exotic oriental" dance wife, Wong Lee. |
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| Description: | A man smoking a cigar and wearing a helmet sits on a chair on a front lawn with a woman, presumably his wife, standing behind him. |
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| Description: | A man in pajamas and a military hat packs a suitcase on the floor of a bedroom. |
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| Description: | Large group of Harold Gauer's friends. In the front row from left to right are Bob Vail, Marion Bloch, Mary Jo Vonier, Angie Vail, an unidentified woman, a... |
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| Description: | A shirtless Harold Gauer wearing elaborate facial make-up, a wig, and a prosthetic pig-like nose, and smoking a pipe. |
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| Description: | Costume party portrait of Angie Vail (nee Sianjn), taken in Harold Gauer's Brady Street apartment. On the wall a small American flag is propped on the apar... |
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| Description: | Robert Bloch wearing a dress, a blonde wig, eyeglasses and a feathered hat, strums a ukulele while holding a cigarette and sticking his tongue out. On the ... |
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