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| Description: | Portrait of Simon Sparrow posing in front of one of his artworks. |
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| Description: | Writer William S. Burroughs seated and speaking into a microphone during a reading. |
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| Description: | Overhead view of playwright Joel Gersmann lying on his back covered in a pile of books reading "Lost Highway." |
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| Description: | Group portrait including Maya Angelou and Donna Shalala. |
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| Description: | Author George Vukelich seated in a chair behind his desk. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Sid Boyum, standing in his backyard, painting a landscape depicting Little Fork River in northwest Minnesota. |
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| Description: | Sid Boyum painting a Works Progress Administration (WPA) mural of a toy shop. The 1940 census lists Sid as an artist/government worker for the Toy Loan Pro... |
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| Description: | Robert Overman Hodgell, wearing a paisley shirt and eyeglasses, contemplating two wooden sculptures. The sculpture on the left is a headless, armless naked... |
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| Description: | Dr. Carl Forsmark holding a paintbrush up to an oil painting of an elephant, which is framed and hanging on the wall. "That painting is the first oil pain... |
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| Description: | In a corner of the upstairs bedroom (Sid's house) there are a number of painting works with different sizes and themes hanging on the wall. |
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| Description: | Display for the Madison Toy Loan program, set up in the corner of an industrial building. Signs for the display read: "Madison Toy Loan takes toys, like th... |
| Date: | 12 1978 |
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| Description: | The Alwin Nikolais Dance Company performs a routine with tensile materials at the Union Theater. Nikolais was awarded a Mayoral Citation for Alwin Nikolais... |
| Date: | 12 1978 |
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| Description: | Alwin Nikolais watches as Jessica Sayre rehearses a new dance. The Nikolais Dance Company later performed at the Union Theater. Nikolais was awarded a Mayo... |
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| Description: | View across Sid's backyard, with Sid standing and wearing a Japanese kimono near one of his Japanese lanterns and a gate. In the background behind a fence ... |
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| Description: | Sid Boyum, with a cigar in his mouth, is sitting on a fur-covered sofa in his living room reading a magazine. There is a large, carved wooden shelving unit... |
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| Description: | Sid Boyum, with a cigar in his mouth, is standing on a ladder while building a wooden form for his concrete casting of an abstract geometric sculpture that... |
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