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Carl Zeidler and Cab Driver

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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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Tom Amlie Staff and Supporters

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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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Tom Amlie's Main Team

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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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Tom Amlie's Home

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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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Fred Clausen and Supporters

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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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Carl Zeidler at Kitchen Table

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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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Bloch and Gauer with Zeidler

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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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Henry Reuss Campaign Picture

Date: 1952
Description: A campaign picture of Democrat Henry and Marge Reuss with family and pet dog on front porch. Taken for Ruess' Run for Mayor after his service in Europe.
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Henry Reuss Behind Grocery Register

Date: 1952
Description: A campaign picture of Democrat Henry Reuss wearing a suit, addressing constituents working at a grocery store. This was likely taken in 1952 while Reuss wa...
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Mayor Carl Zeidler

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Description: Newly elected mayor, Carl Zeidler, with the "braintrust," of Harold Gauer and Robert Bloch, that put him there. The "boys" are congratulating him on his vi...
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Tom Amlie, his Wife, and Doctor Newberry

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Description: In the yard of Tom Amlie. Photograph was to be used for campaign literature. Newberry was a volunteer.
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Henry Reuss Campaign Photograph

Date: 1952
Description: Reuss on his front porch. Photograph was to be used for campaign literature. Reuss had just returned from government service in Europe post World War II.
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Milt Polland

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Description: Polland at the Mid-Summer Festival on the Milwaukee lakefront, with the boys of Nick Ehr family in the foreground. This was just after the successful Zeidl...
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Max Pollack, Robert Bloch, Harold Gauer, and Milt Polland

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Description: Group portrait of the total team working on the election campaign of Carl Zeidler. Max's nickname was "Max the Axe." Milt Polland always wanted to be photo...
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Henry Reuss Campaign Photograph

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Description: Campaign photograph of Reuss talking with the "common working man."

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