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| Description: | Sinister photograph of Bloch conjuring "spirits" from a smoking chamber pot. The image was leter retouched with horror faces double printed into the smoke. |
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| Description: | Side view of a man with a goatee smoking a pipe while sitting in a carved chair made of iron and wood. |
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| Description: | A tiny clay figure sits on the exposed left breast of Alice Bedard, looking into the distance. A poster of skyscrapers is visible in the background. |
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| Description: | A man smiles from the passenger seat of an automobile that's parked in a grassy area on the curb of a gravel road. |
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| Description: | A series of photographs taken to illustrate "political types." On the wall behind him a small American flag is propped on the apartment intercom. |
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| Description: | Bensen was the head of the Milwaukee Press Club. Pose was supposed to be an imitation of someone's "look" who was a newsman. |
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| Description: | Tom Amlie. and volunteer Doctor Newberry, at Amlie's home. Photograph was to be used in campaign literature. |
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| Description: | Principals at the "Mid-Summer Festival." Festival was the precursor of what would become Summerfest. The gang went to the festival to "blow off steam" afte... |
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| Description: | Photograph-montage of many of Gauer's character photographs taken throughout the 1930s and 1940s. This was done at Bloch's request to help his new Californ... |
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| Description: | Bloch dressed as a "laborer," worried about what he would do for a living if he couldn't write. The photograph was taken for the "History" scrapbook. |
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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 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 Bloch standing in a doorway peers through an ornate picture frame holding a roll of toilet paper in front of his open mouth. |
| Date: | 1930-06-25 |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Milwaukee |
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| Description: | In the editorial offices of "Weird Tales" in Chicago. William R. Sprenger, secretary-treasurer of Weird Tales; Farnsworth Wright, editor; Henry Kuttner wri... |
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| Description: | Bloch rented an office and a secretary so that he could dictate and complete eight stories. It was short-lived. Gauer's caption: Dictator, Water Cooler, Se... |
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| Description: | Bloch in his home library in Los Angeles holding a letter opener while making an obscene gesture to the photographer. |
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| Description: | Bloch in a pensive pose pondering his recent actions of leaving the Gus Marx agency and moving to Weyawega, Wisconsin (his wife's hometown), to concentrate... |
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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: | A group of unidentified people getting off of a trolley with the words [obscured]LL & HYDE Sts. on the side of the roof. |
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