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Mrs. Phillips, Secretary of W.C.T.U.

Date: 08 24 1934
Description: Portrait of Margaret Phillips, secretary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, seamstress, writer, and a Madison activist.
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Romance Koopman and Bobby Koopman

Date: 06 24 1944
Description: Romance Koopman and her son, Bobby Koopman. She did freelance writing and radio scripts, and was a winner of five national awards for writing. Her mother w...
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August Derleth at His Desk

Date: 1942
Description: Author August Derleth surrounded by books at his desk.
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Hans Christian Andersen, Author

Date: 1863
Description: Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), Danish poet and author of fairy tales. Inscription at bottom of card reads, "H...
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Myra Page

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Description: Portrait of Myra Page, an author and Antioch coop student, who was both a student and later a teacher at Highlander Folk School.
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Elie Wiesel

Date: 09 2006
Description: Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and author, takes a break during a long day of presentations at Viterbo University.
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Portrait of Harold Gauer: Mad Scientist

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Description: Gauer with his "personality made" skull. Gauer caption: Mad scientist, and he was plenty sore too.
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Portrait of Harold Gauer and Robert Bloch

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Description: Bloch is in Russian garb and Gauer is in just a humorous get-up. The photograph may have been taken for Brutal magazine. The Gauer image was cropped...
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Portrait of Robert Bloch: Pensive and Pondering

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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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Portrait of Robert Bloch: Eating in Fraternity Garb

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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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Portrait of Robert Bloch: Behind Fantstic 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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Portait of Harold Gauer and Robert Bloch: Geekmaster and Geek

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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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Robert Bloch: "Slack-Jawed" in Top Hat

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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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Robert Bloch Dressed as Mummy

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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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Robert Bloch Posing as a Sheriff

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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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August Derleth and His Jazz Collection

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Description: Wisconsin writer August Derleth and his jazz collection.
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Derleth and His Home

Date: 1952
Description: Wisconsin author August Derleth standing in front of his Sauk City home, "the Place of the Hawks."
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Zona Gale

Date: 1920
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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Alice Kent Trimpey

Date: 1930
Description: A portrait of the photographer's wife, Alice Kent Trimpey, sitting. Mrs. Trimpey was an authority on antiques and antique dolls.
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August Derleth

Date: 1941
Description: Sauk City author August Derleth sitting in a wing back chair near a fireplace in his home, "The Place of Hawks."

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