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| Description: | Robert Bloch and his family pose on their second floor porch at the flat they rented at 2626B Maryland Avenue. This was during Bloch's work at the Marx age... |
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| Description: | Bloch in a pensive pose pondering his recent actions of leaving the Gus Marx agency and moving to Weyawega, Wisconsin (his wife's hometown), to concentrate... |
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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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| 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: | 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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| Description: | Bloch's head completely bandaged as a mummy which reflected Bloch's fascination with horror. Gauer said it was, "Bloch after shaving." |
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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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| 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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| Description: | This photograph of Bloch and Gauer was taken to illustrate Capital and Labor working together. |
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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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| Description: | War satire photograph of Gauer, Bloch, and Doolittle. |
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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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| 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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| Description: | Wisconsin writer August Derleth and his jazz collection. |
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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 ... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin author August Derleth standing in front of his Sauk City home, "the Place of the Hawks." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length portrait of Zona Gale (Mrs. William Breese) standing near a window and holding a rose in her left hand. |
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| Description: | A view of the homestead poet Walt Whitman. Text below the image reads "Walt Whitman's homestead, Walt Whitman born at West Hills May 31, 1819. Died at Camd... |
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