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Portrait of Alice Bedard

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Description: Formal portrait of Alice Bedard, taken in Harold Gauer's Brady Street apartment.
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Glamour Portrait of Angie Vail

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Description: A "glamour" portrait taken of Angie Vail, probably while Bob Vail was in the service.
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Robert and Angie Vail

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Description: Robert and Angie Vail pose with drinks at a nautical themed costume party.
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Robert Bloch At Home

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Description: Bloch at his work space in his home in Los Angeles.
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Forrest Flower Studio Portrait

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Description: Forrest Flower in his studio posing for a "formal" picture. Flower was a Wisconsin regional WPA artist known for working in the "socialist" style. Flower w...
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Portrait of Robert Bloch: Lampshade and Make-up

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Description: Bloch with a lampshade on his head and "oriental" Asian make-up for an advertisement in Brutal magazine. Brutal was a "one-copy" magazine of ...
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Carter Wells in Uniform

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Description: Carter Wells on leave during WWII. Wells came back to run for 5th district congress and was unsuccessful.
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Clay Figure in Woman's Mouth

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Description: A tiny clay figure in Alice Bedard's mouth. Posters of mountains and skyscrapers are on the wall in the background.
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Toe in a Mouse-Trap

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Description: A close-up of a human foot with a sprung "Sure Catch" mousetrap on the big toe.
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Angie Vail in Hat and Boots

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Description: Angie Vail (nee Siajn) in "exotic" costume. Photograph may have been a "girlie" shot taken for Bob Vail.
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Family Eating "Corn Reekies"

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Description: An unidentified man, child, and woman sit around a kitchen table eating "Corn Reekies."
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"Oriental" Costumes

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Description: A group of people wearing Asian costumes of "Oriental stereotypes." In the back row from left to right are Robert Bloch, Alice Bedard, Angie Vail, Mary Jo ...
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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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Comic Portrait of Ed Sachs, Harold Gauer, and D. Reid Ross

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Description: Humorous picture of the "Joe Must Go" group in funny outfits sitting on a stairway. The "Joe Must Go" group was trying to get enough signatures to get Joe ...
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Robert Bloch with Eyeglasses and Cigarette

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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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H.P. Lovecraft

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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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Bloch with Infant Daughter

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Description: Robert Bloch lays on his back on a couch while his daughter, Sally Ann Bloch, crawls on his chest.
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Milwaukee Street Scene

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Description: View from sidewalk of cars parked along Brady Street. Storefronts and a church are visible.
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Dark Profile of a Man

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Description: A man wearing a hat sits in profile in a darkened room with a bookshelf behind his back.
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Packing a Suitcase

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Description: A man in pajamas and a military hat packs a suitcase on the floor of a bedroom.

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