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Gisholt Machine Company Sales Material

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Description: Drawing depicting a man with a moustache, eyeglasses, and a safari hat smoking a pipe above the words "Gisholt Sales Safari."
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Sales Safari

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Description: Drawing depicting a man wearing a suit and a safari hat crouching on the ground next to his briefcase, following the scent of an "Order" to dollar signs. T...
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Gisholt Sales Safari Lion

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Description: Gisholt Sales Safari drawing depicting a man wearing a suit and a safari hat carrying a briefcase on a stick over his shoulder. He has a hand over his eyes...
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Swatting on the Gisholt Sales Safari

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Description: Drawing depicting the Gisholt Sales Safari man lunging to catch an "Order" and dollar signs with a flyswatter. His hat is falling off his head. On the left...
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Using Tact on Gisholt Sales Safari

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Description: Drawing depicting the Gisholt Sales Safari man using "Tact" to keep a gorilla happy. The man, who is sweating and holding something in his hand as an offer...
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"A Dog Gone Duck"

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Description: Artwork for Ducks Unlimited by Sid Boyum featuring "A Self Retriever" or "A Dog Gone Duck," which is half duck, half dog. The lower left corner of the post...
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Ice Chippers Dinner

Date: 1957
Description: Group portrait of the "Ice Chippers," an ice fishing club of Gisholt workers gathered for their annual dinner. A man on the right is holding a hand-drawn p...
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"Flambeau Smoothies '63"

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Description: Drawing attached to wall depicting a man canoeing and attempting to pull an innertube or raft with a woman on board. The woman is wearing a hat and appears...
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Paintings on Walls

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Description: View of interior of Sid's office with a number of paintings and other artworks framed and displayed on a wall in the corner of a room above a table with la...
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Paintings on Walls

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Description: View of a corner of Sid's office with several artworks, including paintings, masks, musical instruments, etc. Near the corner is a floor to ceiling light f...
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Paintings on Walls

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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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Gisholt V12 Machinery

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Description: Rendering of a new piece of Gisholt V12 machinery.
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Confederate States of America flag

Date: 1861
Description: Sixth plate ambrotype of a drawing of the first flag of the Confederate States of America, popularly called the stars and bars. Seven stars on blue ground,...
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Portrait of Edgar Allen Poe

Date: 1893
Description: Cabinet card of a pastel drawing, formal portrait, waist-up, of Edgar Allen Poe. The drawing was created by Oscar Halling, a little known Baltimore artist ...
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Drawing of the Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 1857
Description: Half plate ambrotype of a drawing of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Copy of the design by Samuel Hunter Donnel and August Kutzbock, Madison architects, showi...
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"My Pretty Jane"

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Description: Sixth plate ambrotype of drawing of a young woman, after British artist James Fisher. Quarter-length portrait. She is facing slightly to the right, with fl...
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"The Flower of Dunblane"

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Description: Sixth plate ambrotype of drawing of a young woman, after British artist James Fisher. Quarter-length portrait, showing left profile, with flowing shoulder ...
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Cross Section of Two Rooms with Man and Woman

Date: 1919
Description: Cross section of two adjacent rooms: a woman on the left is pouring milk into a cream separator, and on the right is a man putting corn into a grinder.
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Titan Tractor Belt Driving Ensilage Cutter

Date: 1920
Description: Farm scene, with drawing of clouds in the background. A Titan tractor on the left is belt-driving an ensilage cutter in the center near a silo and barn. In...
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Surveyor's Drawings of William Deerings Agricultural Works

Date: 1919
Description: Surveyor's drawings of William Deerings Agricultural Works in Lake View, Illinois erected in 1880.

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