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| Description: | Elevated view of Robert Bloch at the Gus Marx ad agency. Gauer credits Bloch with changing Marx into a real "nut." Bloch was expecting to inherit the agenc... |
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| Description: | War satire photograph of Gauer, Bloch, and Doolittle. |
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| Description: | Bloch dressed as a monster. Possibly taken for Brutal magazine or the scrapbooks. |
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| Description: | View across street of Robert Bloch posing as a drunk in New Orleans, during Gauer and Bloch's trip there to write a book. |
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| Description: | Bloch's head completely bandaged as a mummy which reflected Bloch's fascination with horror. Gauer said it was, "Bloch after shaving." |
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| Description: | This photograph of Bloch and Gauer was taken to illustrate Capital and Labor working together. |
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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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| Description: | Political photograph of Bloch and Gauer in costume taken to illustrate Capital and Labor working together. |
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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: | 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: | 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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| Description: | Robert Bloch and his family pose on their second floor porch at the flat they rented at 2626B Maryland Avenue. This was during Bloch's work at the Marx age... |
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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: | 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: | Photograph was taken as a record of Amlie's main team, at headquarters. From left to right: Unknown lawyer, Harold Gauer, Tom Amlie, and Robert Bloch. |
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| Description: | Bloch is in Russian garb and Gauer is in just a humorous get-up. The photograph may have been taken for Brutal magazine. The Gauer image was cropped... |
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| Description: | Bloch indulging himself while dressed in humorous garb as a fraternity brother. Taken as an illustration for a fraternity article in Smiles magazine... |
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