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| Description: | Principals at the "Mid-Summer Festival." Festival was the precursor of what would become Summerfest. The gang went to the festival to "blow off steam" afte... |
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| Description: | Photograph-montage of many of Gauer's character photographs taken throughout the 1930s and 1940s. This was done at Bloch's request to help his new Californ... |
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| Description: | Bloch dressed as a "laborer," worried about what he would do for a living if he couldn't write. The photograph was taken for the "History" scrapbook. |
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| Description: | A shirtless Robert Bloch is posed sitting puffing out his cheeks. He is wearing a baseball cap, a baseball mitt, and eyeglasses with covered lenses. |
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| Description: | Robert Bloch in front of a drop cloth, wearing a thick layer of white monster makeup and a scary wig over a dark shirt. |
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| Description: | Robert Bloch standing in a doorway peers through an ornate picture frame holding a roll of toilet paper in front of his open mouth. |
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| Description: | In the editorial offices of "Weird Tales" in Chicago. William R. Sprenger, secretary-treasurer of Weird Tales; Farnsworth Wright, editor; Henry Kuttner wri... |
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| Description: | Bloch rented an office and a secretary so that he could dictate and complete eight stories. It was short-lived. Gauer's caption: Dictator, Water Cooler, Se... |
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| Description: | Bloch in his home library in Los Angeles holding a letter opener while making an obscene gesture to the photographer. |
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| Description: | Bloch in a pensive pose pondering his recent actions of leaving the Gus Marx agency and moving to Weyawega, Wisconsin (his wife's hometown), to concentrate... |
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| Description: | Robert Bloch, with cigar, and Robert Vail, holding a pipe. They are both wearing military costumes, staged standing on chairs next to a bed. |
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| Description: | A group of unidentified people getting off of a trolley with the words [obscured]LL & HYDE Sts. on the side of the roof. |
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| Description: | Milt Gelmand and Robert Bloch play a humorous game of pool. From a set of pictures that was eventually sold to Cheers humor magazine. |
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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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| Description: | In the yard of Tom Amlie. Photograph was to be used for campaign literature. Newberry was a volunteer. |
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| Description: | Bloch indulging himself while dressed in humorous garb as a fraternity brother. Taken as an illustration for a fraternity article in Smiles magazine... |
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| Description: | Humorous photograph taken on Maryland Avenue of Bloch in his father's wheelchair, being pushed by Henry Kuttner (agent), during a visit from Los Angeles. B... |
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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: | 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: | Bloch as a "slack-jawed" businessman type. This was used repeatedly for the scrapbooks and other things. On the wall a small American flag is propped on th... |
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