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| Description: | Amusing portrait of the gang "spoofing" jazz and beatnik culture. Alice Bedard is receiving a hypo injection labeled "JAZZ" from harold Gauer while Robert ... |
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| Description: | Gauer and Bloch's illustration of the phrase: "Even if he fell into an outhouse, he'd come out smelling like a rose." |
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| Description: | Showing the effects of a large winter snow at Bloch's Maryland flat. |
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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: | Harold Gauer, wearing makeup, a false nose and smoking a cigar, stands next to Alice Bedard, holding a revolver. They are standing over the body of Robert ... |
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| Description: | Humorous photograph taken shortly after the failed Tom Amlie campaign. They are both posing outdoors as a couple of future "masterminds" in regard to Amlie... |
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| Description: | One of a series of humorous photographs of a billiards match Gauer was trying to market to a magazine. Eventually sold to Cheers magazine. |
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| Description: | A group portrait of various costumed party attendees, including Chester Vonier (night editor at the Milwaukee Sentinel, wearing strongman garb and f... |
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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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| Description: | Group portrait of the total team working on the election campaign of Carl Zeidler. Max's nickname was "Max the Axe." Milt Polland always wanted to be photo... |
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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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| Description: | A photograph of a "classy" bathroom that was most likely used in either Cheese or Smiles humor magazine to which Harlod Gauer contributed. Th... |
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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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