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Portrait of Robert Bloch: Toilet and Rose

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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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Portrait of Ray Bradbury

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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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SOL Group Photograph

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Description: Humorous photograph of Koplin, Bloch, and Gauer dressed as college boys wearing letter sweaters that spell out SOL, for shit-outta-luck. Gauer states they ...
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Portrait of Robert Bloch: Home in Los Angeles

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Description: Bloch in his home library in Los Angeles holding a letter opener while making an obscene gesture to the photographer.
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Portrait of Robert Bloch: Cowboy

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Description: Bloch dressed as a cowboy.
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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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Portrait of Harold Gauer at Typewriter

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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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Robert Bloch Conjuring Spirits

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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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Harold Gauer with New Book

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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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Tom Amlie's Main Team

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Description: Photograph was taken as a record of Amlie's main team, at headquarters. From left to right: Unknown lawyer, Harold Gauer, Tom Amlie, and Robert Bloch.
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Tom Amlie at Typewriter

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Description: Photograph of Amlie working at a desk. The photograph was taken for his race with Smith in the Racine district.
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Harold Gauer with Cigarette

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Description: Gauer "promo" photograph taken with a stack of his just published book: "How to Win in Politics," outlining Robert Bloch and Harold Gauer's modern campaign...
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Tom Amlie

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Description: Campaign photograph for Tom Amlie at typewriter.

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