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| Description: | Robert Bloch and his family pose on their second floor porch at the flat they rented at 2626B Maryland Avenue. This was during Bloch's work at the Marx age... |
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| Description: | Bloch as a monster character, possibly for use in Brutal magazine or the scrapbooks. Taken at the Brady Street Lab. Gauer--this might just be a file... |
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| Description: | Costume party at Gauer's home on Downer Avenue. Ruthe Distenfeld owned five appliance stores, Bernice Flower was Forrest Flower's wife (WPA Artist), and Be... |
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| Description: | A photograph of a "classy" bathroom that was most likely used in either Cheese or Smiles humor magazine to which Harlod Gauer contributed. Th... |
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| Description: | Harold Gauer (wearing a hat, wig, bow tie and smoking a cigar), and three friends, Ed Sachs (who took over the editorship of the Sauk City newspaper), D. R... |
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| Description: | A rare "straight" portrait of author and Gauer friend Robert Bloch, which was taken for a series Gauer called "how they looked then." |
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| Description: | Author Robert Bloch wearing a prosthetic pig-like nose, wig, and makeup. |
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| Description: | Robert Bloch wearing make-up makes a frightening face while holding his hands out in front of him. His hair is slicked back and he wears a suit jacket with... |
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| Description: | Robert Bloch, wearing a suit and tie, is posed with a cigarette in his right hand. |
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| Description: | Harold Gauer, smoking a pipe, stands shirtless in a clearing surrounded by trees holding a CARE box on top of his head, labeled: "CARE Send a Care Package ... |
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| Description: | Harold Gauer is sitting at a desk wearing a pinstriped suit. His left foot is bare and "typing" at a typewriter, while he reads a note and talks on the tel... |
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| Description: | An unknown man is posed on a couch holding a book that has been renamed "Goon History, Volume 3." |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of H.P. Lovecraft wearing a suit jacket, vest, and tie taped to a piece of paper. |
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| Description: | Harold Gauer and Robert Bloch sit on chairs outside in a backyard writing on sheets of paper. A liquor bottle sits on the table between them. |
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| Description: | Harold Gauer and Robert Bloch sit on a couch with Alice Bedard and Marion Bloch situated between them. William Powell and Joyce Vonier sit on the far right... |
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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: | Gauer in Madison in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol after speaking with the Governor on CARE business. |
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| Description: | Photograph celebrating Henry Kuttner's visit to Milwaukee. He had driven an old Plymouth all the way from Los Angeles. Cut line was: On arrival, he immedia... |
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| Description: | Three men, Harold Gauer likely among them, examine a Rolls Royce Phantom belonging to Webster Woodmanisee. They are working in a driveway, with a garage wi... |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Robert Bloch wearing a shawl around his head, and skin darkening make-up. A curtain has been hung up as a backdrop to obscur... |
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