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| Date: | 08 24 1934 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Margaret Phillips, secretary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, seamstress, writer, and a Madison activist. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Author August Derleth surrounded by books at his desk. |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite of Raja Radhakant Deva Bahadoor (1783-1867), Indian scholar and author. Best known for writing the Sanskrik Encyclopedia, Sabdakalpadruma (... |
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| Description: | Gauer and Bloch's illustration of the phrase: "Even if he fell into an outhouse, he'd come out smelling like a rose." |
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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: | 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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| 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: | 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: | Sinister photograph of Bloch conjuring "spirits" from a smoking chamber pot. The image was leter retouched with horror faces double printed into the smoke. |
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| Description: | Humorous photograph of Gauer hawking his just published book: "How to Win in Politics." He is standing in front of a wall with multiple copies of a small s... |
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| Description: | August Derleth posed with part of his comic collection. The image is from a tinted photograph by Carmie Thompson. |
| Date: | 2003 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin author Michael Perry smiles for a picture at book signing of his book "Big Rigs, Elvis & the Grand Dragon Wayne". |
| Date: | 04 28 1956 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Cockefair sit for a portrait while holding the book "The Story of You" that they authored. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Informal portrait of William Hesseltine, University of Wisconsin History Professor (1932-1963) and President of the Wisconsin State Historical Society (19... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Irna Phillips is seated, and drawing a floor plan. On a table next to her are framed photographs of her children. |
| Date: | 03 1965 |
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| Description: | The caption with this photograph reads: "Dr. Walter Peterson (right), professor of history at Lawrence University, Appleton, with F. Gerald Ham, Wisconsin ... |
| Date: | 10 1969 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips sitting next to Coretta Scott King. Vel is wearing two button pins on her lapel. Coretta is holding in her lap the book "My Life with Martin L... |
| Date: | 10 24 1957 |
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| Description: | Dr. Schindler at home sitting at his writing desk in his library and study. The caption says he is wearing a deep red silk smoking jacket and that he took ... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Arville Schaleben with his book. "Your Future in Journalism," in hard cover, paper back and in braille. |
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