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Fisherman by Power House and Dam

Date: 05 06 1973
Description: Black ink line drawing of a fisherman on the bank of Big Spring Creek near a power house and dam. Puffy clouds fill the sky in the background and thick veg...
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Opening Day Fishing Season - Fish Tales

Date: 1987
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing titled, "Fish Tales (The Truth is Irrelevant, A Lie Well Told Lives Forever)." Sid adds the following words to describe the...
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Invitation to a Winter Holiday Party

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Description: Hand-drawn invitation by Sid for a Gisholt Machine Company winter holiday party that reads: "Come what will — we observe our holidays still." Dec. 21st, 5 ...
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Drawing of an Advance Mechanism

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Description: Drawing of a semi-closed hand advancing a radial dial at the Gisholt Machine Company. The graphic was used for advertising.
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Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1964
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a view from a riverbank of a fly fisherman in hip waders, who is standing in a stream while hooking a bass. The fish is ...
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Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1980
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a large trout surrounded by a variety of insects, a fishing reel, and a fishing lure. This drawing appeared in the Wi...
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Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1981
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing. This drawing appeared in the Capitol Times on April 21, 1981 with Sid's caption: "a sportswriter with an automatic ...
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Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1982
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing. This drawing appeared in the Capitol Times on April 30, 1982 with the caption: "The opening of the state fishing se...
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Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1985
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing that appeared in the Capitol Times May 3, 1985 with Sid's caption: "Charlie Lunker Bass is down at the rustic barber...
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Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1976
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing that appeared in the Wisconsin State Journal on May 1, 1976 with Sid's caption: "The Atwood-Ave Clean Fresh Water An...
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Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1984
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a large muskelunge (muskie), badge number 315 and clad in cowboy boots with spurs, that takes control with his six-shoot...
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Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1974
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a fisherman in waders, standing in ankle deep water and bending over with one hand in the water. He is looking towards h...
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Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1968
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing titled, "Today and Tomorrow — The Fisherman's Myth Never Flounders," that appeared in the Wisconsin State Journal on...
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Drawing of a Fire-Breathing Dragon Cannon

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Description: Pen and ink drawing of a fire-breathing dragon cannon on wheels and covered with armor plate.
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Card on Unrequited Love and Loss

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Description: Pen-and-ink drawing of an eye with a single tear superimposed on a doily heart decorated with stars. Piercing the heart from top to bottom is a sword. Two ...
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Fisherman and Fish

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Description: Drawing of a man standing and fishing in a lake. He has a pipe in his mouth, and is wearing a hat and waders, with a creel over his shoulder. His fishing p...
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Three Naked Women with Grapes and Champagne Glass

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Description: Black-ink drawing of a bacchanalian scene with three naked women amidst three grape bunches. One is holding the stem of a champagne glass that is emitting ...
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Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Illustration art in black ink of a locomotive pulling a long line of railroad cars in a strong diagonal composition. The engine advances to the lower left ...
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Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Illustration art of an unmarked delivery van. All corners are rounded and the cab is more flat-fronted on added overlay than original drawn underneath. The...
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Gisholt Commercial Art

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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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