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| Date: | 07 11 1949 |
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| Description: | Joanne Togstad, a recent graduate of Edgewood High School, stands near the newspaper rack at her University of WIsconsin library summer job. |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of William George Bruce, Milwaukee editor and publisher. |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Humphrey J. Desmond, Milwaukee lawyer, editor, and publisher. |
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| Description: | Formal portrait of Robert Novak used for many years in his association with his syndicated newspaper column "Inside Report." |
| Date: | 06 1958 |
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| Description: | Journalist Rowland Evans, Jr., shortly before he began his partnership with Robert Novak. |
| Date: | 02 2003 |
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| Description: | Tommy G. Thompson, former governor of Wisconsin, standing in his office as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services with journalist Robert ... |
| Date: | 06 2003 |
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| Description: | Presidential adviser Carl Rove and journalist Robert Novak at an event honoring the 40th anniversary of Novak's newspaper column. |
| Date: | 10 29 1913 |
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| Description: | Waist-up seated studio portrait of Phillip Gross, Milwaukee company president. He has a newspaper in his lap. |
| Date: | 09 23 1913 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Ellis Baker Usher, Milwaukee publisher and editor. |
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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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| 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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| 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: | 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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| 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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| Description: | Bloch playing the character part of a candidate for sheriff to illustrate a possible book on political "types." |
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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... |
| Date: | 04 26 1950 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Martin Wolman, business manager of Madison Newspapers, Inc. |
| Date: | 04 28 1950 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Karl A. Eisole, Jr., national advertising manager of Madison Newspapers, Inc, wearing a bowtie. |
| Date: | 04 28 1950 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of P.A. Cary, 1602 Jefferson Street, retiring classified advertising manager of Madison Newspapers, Inc. and his staff at a farewell party... |
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