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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: Political photograph of Bloch and Gauer in costume taken to illustrate Capital and Labor working together.
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Tom Amlie Staff and Supporters

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Description: Tom Amlie with supporters and staff taken outside of headquarters. Ed Brown was a "fixer" sent by the party heads in Washington, D.C. Some of the unknown p...
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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 and Milt Gelman Play Pool

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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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Gauer and Bloch in Snowy Woods

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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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Bloch as King Geek

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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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Scene of a Humorous Murder

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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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Angie and Robert Vail in Costume

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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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Couple Related to Gauer

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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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Man and Woman on Front Lawn

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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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Packing a Suitcase

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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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Robert Bloch at Table with Janet Leigh

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Description: Robert Bloch (wearing eyeglasses), the author of Psycho, sitting at a table with Janet Leigh. His wife Marion Bloch stands behind him. The man in the bow t...
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Bloch with Special Effects Prosthetics

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Description: Robert Bloch on the set of Strait Jacket, a 1964 film starring Joan Crawford based on a book Bloch wrote. The film's director William Castle is hold...
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Fred Clausen and Supporters

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Description: The major players in the Clausen campaign posed outdoors at his home. Harold Gauer is on the far left.
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Portrait of Alice Bedard

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Description: Formal portrait taken of Bedard by Harold Gauer.
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Group Photo of Harold Gauer's Friends

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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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Gauer with Makeup and Pig-Nose

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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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Angie Vail in Costume

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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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Victor Ehr and Robert Vail

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Description: Amusing photograph taken to be sold to Smiles magazine. Ehr is selling Vail a bottle marked, "Skull Oil."

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