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Charles McCarthy in his Office

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Description: Charles McCarthy seated at a desk with a telephone in front of him.
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Charles McCarthy in his Office

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Description: Charles McCarthy writing at his desk in his office.
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August Derleth in his Office

Date: 1965
Description: Office of author August Derleth, Wisconsin's Very Live Radio's (WVLR) unofficial consultant on the history of the Sauk-Prairie area. Derleth's novels and s...
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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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August Derleth at His Desk

Date: 1942
Description: Author August Derleth surrounded by books at his desk.
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Alex Haley

Date: 1978
Description: Author Alex Haley autographing a copy of his best selling book, Roots, during a visit to Spottsylvania County, Virginia, where his ancestor Kunte Ki...
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Raja Radhakant Deva Bahadoor, Author

Date: 1857
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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Book Week

Date: 1948
Description: Four Madison authors are shown together holding books they have written. Seated are Francis F. Bowman and Prof. William Hesseltine. Standing are Miss Emil...
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Walt Whitman Letter, Page 1

Date: 07 17 1881
Description: First page of a letter written by Walt Whitman regarding the publication of a book he was writing.
Manuscript

Walt Whitman Letter, Page 2

Date: 07 17 1881
Description: The second page of a letter written by Walt Whitman regarding publishing a book he was writing.
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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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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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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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