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Harold Gauer with Cigarette
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Gauer "promo" photograph taken with a stack of his just published book: "How to Win in Politics," outlining Robert Bloch and Harold Gauer's modern campaign strategies. Photograph was taken in Milt Polland's office.
circa 1940-1949
Gauer, Harold
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Portrait of Marion Bloch
circa 1940-1949
"Dress" photograph of Marion Bloch taken at Harold Gauer's Brady Street apartment.
Gauer and Bloch: Reaction to Ruess's Defeat
circa 1940-1949
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 was "very German" and hard to get along with.
Tom Amlie's Main Team
circa 1940-1949
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.
Political Photograph of Diamond Restaurant
circa 1940-1949
Candidate cards in restaurant window to illustrate current level of political advertising at the time of Gauer's campaigns. Gauer thought this was wasted effort.
Milt Polland
circa 1940-1949
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 Zeidler campaign, and after Robert Bloch and Ha...
Bloch and Gauer with Zeidler
circa 1940-1949
Harold Gauer, Carl Zeidler, Robert Bloch, and unidentified man (possibly Max Pollack). Both Gauer and Bloch are posing humorously in costumes.
