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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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Personal Library

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Description: Interior view of a personal library in a home.
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Office or Study

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Description: An office or study, most likely belonging to Harold Gauer, with three framed pictures hanging over a desk, of Robert Bloch, one-time Milwaukee mayoral cand...
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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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Victor Ehr

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Description: Victor Ehr, in town on a visit, sits for portrait.
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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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Robert Bloch with Fake Nose

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Description: Author Robert Bloch wearing a prosthetic pig-like nose, wig, and makeup.
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Portrait of Marion Bloch

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Description: "Dress" photograph of Marion Bloch taken at Harold Gauer's Brady Street apartment.
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Gauer Self-Portrait with Bow Tie

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Description: A self-portrait of Harold Gauer wearing a jacket and bow tie.
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Clay Man Climbing Womans Neck

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Description: A tiny clay figure uses a pipe-cleaner ladder to climb the exposed neck of Alice Bedard.
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Portrait of Alice Bedard

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Description: Alice Bedard posing on table in Harold Gauer's Brady Street apartment.
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Portrait of Robert Vail

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Description: A portrait of Gauer's friend Robert Vail wearing a suit and tie.
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Carl Zeidler at Kitchen Table

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Description: Milwaukee mayoral candidate (and future mayor) Carl Zeidler in election photograph sitting at kitchen table with a woman and two young children. There is a...
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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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Angie Vail in Exotic Costume

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Description: Another "exotic," "girlie" picture taken of Angie Vail (nee Siajn) in Harold Gauer's Brady Street apartment.
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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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Gauer Self-Portrait

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Description: A self-portrait of Harold Gauer wearing a jacket and tie, in front of a black backdrop.
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Gauer Self-Portrait with Makeup

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Description: Head and shoulders self-portrait of Harold Gauer wearing a jacket, tie and face makeup.

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