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Photograph

Blue Pillar Sculpture with the Artist

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Description: Sid Boyum standing in his backyard between the Blue Pillar with Figure and Pelican, and a large white Lantern sculpture. Other sculptures are in the backgr...
Photograph

Lantern Sculpture

Date: 08 1966
Description: Lantern sculpture surrounded by trees and plants. In the background is a man sitting or standing with his back turned.
Photograph

Tea Garden Card with Sid Boyum in Costume

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Description: Christmas card by Sid of himself standing in his backyard in the tea garden. Boyum, in grey kimono and straw conical hat and holding a small wooden keg, is...
Print

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Color illustration art of an overhead view of a man operating a Number 5 Ram Turret machine with a control panel. Metal shavings are scattered on the machi...
Print

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Color illustration art of a machine operator working on a six-arm turret. He is wearing a billed cap and safety goggles.
Drawing

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Illustration art of an engineer wearing work clothes and introducing a Gisholt Machine Company turret lathe.
Painting

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Illustrative art of machine operator working with a turret.
Drawing

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Humorous illustration art of a male tightrope walker wearing tights, slippers and v-necked top struggling for balance. He has one foot on the wire, and the...
Painting

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Illustration art of eleven men in business suits and hats, showing head and shoulders in an "S" curve. They are all smiling against a white background.
Drawing

"Any Openings in the 'Goof-Off' Dept?"

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Description: Satirical ink-on-paper cartoon about corporate culture. It shows a man in clownish attire carrying a pillow, satchel with gambling items (cards, poker chip...
Historical Object

"LIFE Visits Gisholt and Our Boy Sid"

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Description: Collage of a color newsprint comic of a photographer, who is operating a fantastic "Rube Goldberg" type camera with innumerable gadgets attached. The photo...
Drawing

"No Draft Press"

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Description: Cartoon drawing of a man standing in profile, sweating while working at a commercial pants pressing machine marked: "No Draft Press." He holds out a card t...
Poster

Reagan Poster

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Description: A cartoon line drawing in black of Ronald Reagan in profile, as a caricature, with the text, in red that reads: "I don't want Carter's job America needs a ...
Poster

"You're All Heart"

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Description: Cartoon of a full-length line drawing of a man and a woman standing at a bar. The man is wearing a suit and tie, and the woman, seen from the rear, has a l...
Poster

Jimmy Carter Caricature

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Description: Black-line head-and-shoulders caricature of President Jimmy Carter, with over-sized grin. Text reads: "But - I am my brother's keeper."
Poster

"Lower your standard of living — Pay your taxes!"

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Description: Cartoon figures drawn in color, with Uncle Sam holding a vacuum cleaner hose for sucking dollar bills away from a small figure, wearing only a barrel. Text...
Poster

"Let's Drive the Snakes Out of Ireland"

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Description: Drawing of a male face with a green fluffy beard and hair, eyeglasses, and a dark cap, with his hand holding a curved green bat labeled "Union House." Alon...
Postcard

"Our Rest Rooms Are Clean!"

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Description: Cartoon drawing of a man flushing himself down the toilet. The drawing is in black outline, with red hair and beard, and blue water drops. Lettering in bla...
Poster

"S.O.B. Save Our Bartender"

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Description: Poster with a portrait of a man wearing a captain's style hat with the insignia of a bottle, and eyeglasses, with a beard and moustache, with a noose aroun...
Poster

"Festival of the Snakes"

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Description: Color caricature of a man, with one eye shut, and the other eye bloodshot, wearing a black hat and black overcoat, and signed: "Sid Boyum." In the top left...

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