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| Description: | Bloch dressed as the "Geekmaster" and Gauer as the "Geek." Gauer is "geeking" a wooden snake in the photograph. It was to be used to illustrate an unpublis... |
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| Description: | Group portrait from a humorous "Geek" party in Chester Vonier's county owned barracks. Joe O'Hearn was the editor of Trains magazine, Vonier was nig... |
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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: | From left to right, Harold Gauer, Senator Hubert Humphrey, who at the time would have been Minnesota's Senator, Senator Theodore F. Green from Rhode Island... |
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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, Robert Bloch, and an unidentified man holding a cigarette, stand in front of an open doorway in a weathered building. Around the entrance is ... |
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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: | From left to right, Sprague Vonier, Robert Bloch and Harold Gauer stand at the entrance to a bar called Regal in the French Quarter in New Orleans. |
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| Description: | Bloch on a ship in Mississippi at New Orleans, headed for Baton Rouge. Trip was gratis from Victor Ehr, director of the Baton Rouge chamber of commerce and... |
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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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