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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Original pen and ink drawing of an illustration for a McCormick Company advertising catalog. Features a drawing of a farmhouse, trees and grounds in winter... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Original pen and ink drawing of an illustration for a McCormick Company advertising catalog. Features a drawing of a school boy at a desk holding a chalk b... |
| Date: | 09 1895 |
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| Description: | Full page, engraved advertisement for Andrae Cycles. Depicts men and women bicycling on a path in a bucolic setting, in addition to text promoting bicycles... |
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| Description: | Pen and ink drawing of the backside of a small, naked boy holding an ice cream cone while wearing Cecil's Sandals with the caption: "Beat the Heat in Cecil... |
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| Description: | Pen and ink drawing of a man with a large nose looking down at his feet. He is wearing sandals. Caption reads: "He Nose Comfort and Health from Head to Toe... |
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| Description: | Illustration art of an engineer wearing work clothes and introducing a Gisholt Machine Company turret lathe. |
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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... |
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| Description: | Rendering of a man using handmade lathe. The lathe consists of a tree branch tied with a rope attached to a log suspended between two tree trunks, and a lo... |
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| Description: | Illustration art of a man standing by machinery is cupping his ear and listening to the sound of the machine at work. A kitten is sitting inside the machin... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men working on the assembly line at Rayovac. The title is "Balanced Performance." Written in pencil on parts of the drawing are "Pitch," "... |
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| Description: | Illustration art of a judge sitting behind a desk with text below that reads: "You be the Judge!" On the reverse is written, "Gisholt." |
| Date: | 06 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Black ink on white card, of three images in cartoon-style. The top image is of a group of men admiring a Gisholt Lathe, the middle image is of a man runnin... |
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| Description: | Drawing of red-bearded leprechaun with a pipe in his mouth. He is holding up a curved bat (perhaps a shillelagh) in one hand and an oversized three-leafed ... |
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| Description: | Drawing of an old man with a long beard and moustache holding a sand hourglass. On the left the caption reads: "Sandal styles are over 2000 years old, but ... |
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| Description: | Advertisement for Ole's men's clothing store. It shows a bowling pin with a smiling face and waving arms dressed in a bowling shirt with the embroidered na... |
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| Description: | Illustration art of American World War II soldiers walking single file on a wooden planked bridge with guide rope. The foreshortening perspective shows boo... |
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