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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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Portrait of Marion Bloch

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Description: Formal portrait of Robert Bloch's wife, Marion. On the wall a small American flag is propped on the apartment intercom.
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Portrait of Ruthe Distenfeld

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Description: Distenfeld requested a "glamour" type girlie portrait be taken. Her husband, Max, was an ex-gambler who owned five appliance stores.
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Thad Wasilewsky

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Description: Wasilewsky standing outdoors on sidewalk. He was deciding if he wanted to run for public office.
Property Record

2132-34 S ALLIS ST

Community: Milwaukee
County: Milwaukee
Historic Name: Mrs. B. Gauer House
Reference Number: 90784
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Tahiti Party

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Description: Party at Bob Vails on Milwaukee's South side near Allen Bradley. They made use of their costume "stash" to host a Tahiti party.
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Man with "Goon History Volume 3"

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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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Robert Bloch Posing as a Sheriff

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Description: Bloch playing the character part of a candidate for sheriff to illustrate a possible book on political "types."
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Unidentified City

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Description: An unidentified cityscape as viewed from an open window in a skyscraper. Cars, buses, and other skyscrapers are visible below.
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Unidentified Woman in Hat

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Description: Possibly a picture of Harold Gauer's brother Norman's "exotic oriental' dancer wife. Photograph was taken in the Brady Street "Lab."
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Carl Zeidler Addressing Crowd

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Description: Milwaukee Democratic mayoral candidate (and future mayor) Carl Zeidler speaking to an audience using a microphone.
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Victor Ehr and Robert Vail

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Description: Amusing photograph taken to be sold to Smiles magazine. Ehr is selling Vail a bottle marked, "Skull Oil."
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Henry Reuss Campaign Photograph

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Description: Campaign photograph of Reuss talking with the "common working man."
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Portrait of Robert Bloch: Behind Fantstic Magazine

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Description: Bloch wearing a top hat and reading one of his published stories in Fantastic magazine. This is not a Gauer photograph, but a copy of a negative of ...
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Group Photograph in Milwaukee

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Description: Photograph celebrating Henry Kuttner's visit to Milwaukee. He had driven an old Plymouth all the way from Los Angeles. Cut line was: On arrival, he immedia...

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