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| Description: | Carl Zeidler speaking with cab driver (i.e. the working man) for a campaign brochure. Three other men are standing with them on the curb. |
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| Description: | Gauer and Bloch reacting to Ruess's campaign defeat. Gauer worked full time on the campaign, but Bloch was an occasional help. According to Gauer, Ruess wa... |
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| Description: | Humorous photograph taken shortly after the failed Tom Amlie campaign. They are both posing outdoors as a couple of future "masterminds" in regard to Amlie... |
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| Description: | For Smiles magazine. Playing a political rumor monger, in character clothes. |
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| Description: | Gauer maintains this photograph was taken because of the man's interesting look. Man talked repeatedly with Vail and Vonier about running for office, but n... |
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| Description: | Political poster of Gauer in costume as a candidate for mayor, taken post-Zeidler campaign. Gauer says his motto was: "...clean city hall of deadwood and r... |
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| Description: | This character of a "ward worker" photograph was taken for Smiles magazine. On the wall behind the man a small American flag is propped on the apart... |
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| Description: | Politician Carl Ziedler, who ran for mayor of Milwaukee. Gauer is quoted in his book Keeping Track of What Happened, "When Hollywood came out with p... |
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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: | Candidate cards in restaurant window to illustrate current level of political advertising at the time of Gauer's campaigns. Gauer thought this was wasted e... |
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| Description: | Image of Clausen for his campaign booklet. It was titled: "Clausen Looks Ahead" or "Clausen Looks to the Future." Gauer noted that it had to be retaken bec... |
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| Description: | Tom Amlie with supporters and staff taken outside of headquarters. Ed Brown was a "fixer" sent by the party heads in Washington, D.C. Some of the unknown p... |
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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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| Description: | Robert Bloch, Harold Gauer, Tom Amilie, and two unknown men at Amlie's home. Taken to illustrate campaign brochure of Amlie talking to "farmer types." |
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| Description: | The major players in the Clausen campaign posed outdoors at his home. Harold Gauer is on the far left. |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Democratic mayoral candidate (and future mayor) Carl Zeidler speaking to an audience using a microphone. |
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| Description: | Milwaukee mayoral candidate (and future mayor) Carl Zeidler in election photograph sitting at kitchen table with a woman and two young children. There is a... |
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| Description: | A young girl on a city sidewalk with a St. Bernard that's wearing a sandwich board reading "Carl Zeidler For Mayor." |
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| Description: | Harold Gauer, Carl Zeidler, Robert Bloch, and unidentified man (possibly Max Pollack). Both Gauer and Bloch are posing humorously in costumes. |
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| Description: | Carter Wells polling on the street, taken for a campaign booklet. He was running for 5th district congress. |
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