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Dale Farm

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Description: A scrapbook page containing five photographs of John R. Commons and farm labor. The handwriting in the center reads: "Dale Farm with AL and Windy." Caption...
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CIO Students Reading

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Description: Two CIO students reading books outside at Highlander Folk School. One book is titled, "The CIO and World Affairs".
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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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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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William Best Hesseltine

Date: 1960
Description: Informal portrait of William Hesseltine, University of Wisconsin History Professor (1932-1963) and President of the Wisconsin State Historical Society (19...
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Robert Doyle Reading

Date: 1944
Description: Robert Doyle as he reads and writes indoors. He is wearing a bracelet (perhaps an ID) on his right wrist, and is holding a cigarette. Another man sitting b...
Book or Pamphlet

Press Club of Chicago Dinner Menu

Date: 05 02 1902
Description: Front cover and first two pages of the menu and program for a dinner honoring newspaperman Opie Read. There is a tipped-in drawing of Read on the cover, dr...
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Man Posing with a Book at the Club Tavern

Date: 06 04 1975
Description: Portrait of a man sitting behind the bar at the Club Tavern, posing with a copy of the book, Blue-Collar Aristocrats, by E.E. LeMasters. Patrons are...

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