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| Date: | 08 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Mary Rennebohm, wife of Governor Oscar Rennebohm, is shown dressed in a nineteenth century gown and bonnet while serving as a hostess at the opening day of... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A young boy and girl posed dressed up and wearing a crowns. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A smiling young girl posed wearing a crown and a dress. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A smiling young boy posing wearing a crown and a dress jacket. He is also wearing what is possibly a 4-H pin on his lapel. |
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| Description: | Bloch as a monster character, possibly for use in Brutal magazine or the scrapbooks. Taken at the Brady Street Lab. Gauer--this might just be a file... |
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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: | Head and shoulders portrait of Robert Bloch wearing a shawl around his head, and skin darkening make-up. A curtain has been hung up as a backdrop to obscur... |
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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 stands posing on a bed with his hands out in front of him and with monster make-up on his face. He is wearing a jacket, shirt, and long pants. |
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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: | 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 Vail, dressed up as a Monk, subtly caresses the thigh of Angie Vail. Vais is smoking and wearing only a tuxedo jacket with a bow tie, hat, and shoes... |
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| Description: | Harold Gauer in costume as a mad scientist. He is holding laboratory glassware, and a microscope is visible on the shelf behind him. |
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| Description: | A shirtless Harold Gauer wearing elaborate facial make-up, a wig, and a prosthetic pig-like nose, and smoking a pipe. |
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| Description: | Costume party picture of Angie Vail (nee Siajn) taken by Harold Gauer at the Brady Street apartment. The party was during the war years. On the wall a smal... |
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| Description: | Another "exotic," "girlie" picture taken of Angie Vail (nee Siajn) in Harold Gauer's Brady Street apartment. |
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| Description: | Costume party portrait of Angie Vail (nee Sianjn), taken in Harold Gauer's Brady Street apartment. On the wall a small American flag is propped on the apar... |
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| Description: | Formal portrait of Angie Vail (nee Siajn), taken by Harold Gauer in his Brady Street apartment. On the wall a small American flag is propped on the apartme... |
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| Description: | A shirtless Harold Gauer is wearing fake fangs, a beard, eyeglasses, a wig, and is holding a scientific test-tube. |
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