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Skinny Dipping in the River

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Description: Slightly elevated view looking down at two men undressing to go skinny dipping in the river. A man wearing a suit is standing smiling between them, and two...
Photograph

"Windy City Kitty"

Date: 11 17 1943
Description: Mechanic Sergeant Raymond Smith of Ontario, Wisconsin, stands next to the nose art, "Windy City Kitty," depicting a naked woman in the "pin-up style" on th...
Photograph

Sun Bath on Buster Island

Date: 02 20 1945
Description: Two men enjoy a nude sun bath on Buster Island in the Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, in the South Pacific. The man on the right, wearing only boots, is...
Photograph

Indigenous Woman Poses with NATS Crew

Date: 03 02 1945
Description: An indigenous woman poses with NATS (Naval Air Transport Service) crew on Ella Island, Tarawa Atoll, in the South Pacific. She is wearing a flowered lava l...
Photograph

Happy Days!

Date: 1944
Description: A photograghic card created by Robert Doyle to wish friends and family "Iamu Mwasawa!" A smiling, quarter-length portrait of Robert Doyle in uniform appear...
Photograph

Posing By the Swimming Hole

Date: 10 24 1943
Description: Three officers of General Walter Krueger's staff stand on a log in front of a swimming hole located on Goodenough Island, in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (p...
Print

Lotos Club Dinner to William Howard Taft Menu

Date: 11 16 1912
Description: Autographed one-page oversize menu for a dinner to President William Howard Taft, given by the Lotos Club. Includes an oval quarter-length portrait of Taft...
Photograph

Four People Carrying Packs

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of two men and two women carrying packs. One of the women and one of the men are squatting on the ground. All four are naked abo...
Photograph

Swimmers at Black River

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Description: Copy photograph of an elevated view of a nude man standing on a rock bluff along a river, two men standing in the water below, and another man in mid-air j...
Photograph

Black River Swimmers

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Description: Copy photograph of an outdoor view of two nude men and three boys standing on a rock formation above a river. Identified as the swimming hole in the Black ...
Photograph

Gathering of Men

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Description: Group portrait of a group of men posing sitting and standing around a table. There are several female nude photographs hanging on the wall behind them.
Poster

"Báječny Život" (Wonderful Life) Film Poster

Date: 1965
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for the British film. At top right is a photographic waist-up image of a man hugging a woman from behind. Below them in the cen...
Poster

"Mandabi" Film Poster

Date: 1970
Description: Grove Press International Film Festival film poster for the Senegalese-French film. Illustrated image of two men and two women in black and white with a ye...
Poster

"Early Works" Film Poster

Date: 1970
Description: Grove Press International Film Festival film poster for the Yugoslavian film, "Rani radovi." Illustrated image of a woman wearing only an open coat and boo...
Photograph

After a Ducks Unlimited Meeting

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Description: Two men from Ducks Unlimited are playing cards at a table, while another man is looking at a poster created by Sid titled: "Secrets of a Sweater Girl." The...
Photograph

Gene Coffman with "Abstract Girl"

Date: 09 1965
Description: Gene Coffman, with a paintbrush in his mouth and holding a package of Disguise Stix©, standing next to "Abstract Girl" in his garage on Sommers Avenue. Th...
Photograph

Len Nyberg in Outdoor Bathtub

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Description: Len Nyberg sitting in a white, enamel metal bathtub set up on a lawn outdoors near the Yahara River. He is washing his feet. A wooden duck is floating in t...
Drawing

Abstract Drawing of Woman

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Description: Abstract cubist-style drawing of a woman standing. The silhouette of a man standing on a structure is in the background.
Drawing

Everlasting Life

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Description: Drawing of a vampire wearing black-and-red cape, dancing with a naked woman with long black hair and closed eyes in a mysterious and bleak setting. There a...
Photograph

Sid Painting "Abstract Girl"

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Description: Sid Boyum painting the body of "Abstract Girl." The pattern on her body was based on one of his canvases titled "Traffic." He used Disguise Stix© on the mo...

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