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Photograph

Gisholdt Employees at Bar

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Description: View of Gisholt employees, all men, wearing suits and neckties, sitting around the bar of an unidentified tavern. On the wall on the right is a Sid Boyum c...
Photograph

Ice Chippers Group Portrait

Date: 1957
Description: Group portrait of the Ice Chippers, members of a winter ice fishing group based in Madison. They are posing indoors, and Sid Boyum is sitting on the floor ...
Photograph

Ice Chippers Dinner

Date: 1961
Description: A woman is standing and serving dinner to men sitting at long tables at the Ice Chippers meeting. Posters are taped to the wall behind the group, and inclu...
Photograph

Ice Chippers at the Bar

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Description: Elevated view of men gathered at a bar before an Ice Chippers annual dinner. A poster on the wall depicts a bird with its head going through the sand so it...
Photograph

Ice Chippers Go Fishing

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Description: Elevated view of a man sitting in a chair fishing in a bowl of water at an "Ice Chippers" gathering. Next to him is a basket labeled: "Whiskey, Worms, What...
Drawing

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...
Drawing

Bartender with Customer

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Description: A bartender is serving a customer in a bar while standing with his pants halfway down his legs exposing his backside. The title above the drawing reads: "I...
Drawing

Giraffe

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Description: Profile drawing of a giraffe standing with its eyes closed. At the top, text reads, "The high•balls are on me!"; at the bottom, "Buy Your Own."
Drawing

Man Drinking Scotch

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Description: Drawing of a man wearing a tailcoat and a hat, drinking a bottle of Scotch with one hand while holding a jug of Bourbon labeled with a capital letter "K" o...
Poster

"Jiggin and Swiggin"

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Description: Poster for the Ohio Tavern. In the center is a caricature of an Irish leprechaun, smoking a pipe and dancing with a glass in his hand. In the upper left mu...
Poster

"The Wisconsin legislature ... drinking age . . ."

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Description: Black letters on white, text reads: "The Wisconsin legislature should pass a bill raising their drinking age above 50 years of age."
Print

Certificate Share in Gisholt Ice Chippers

Date: 1956
Description: Certificate for Gisholt Ice Chippers, with a cartoon of group of fishermen, milling about turned over wine bottles and cheering as an oil rig gushes fish o...
Drawing

Man with Red Lips, Nose, and Veins

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Description: Drawing of a hungover man with a large red nose, red lips, and blood-shot, bulging eyes. The text reads: "Who Said 'Good Morning?'"
Drawing

"'61 Was a Tuff Flight"

Date: 1961
Description: Colored drawing of an injured bird with bandages on its cheek, neck, and wing. Supported by a crutch, it is leaning against a bar by a drink with an ice cu...
Painting

"Lots of Local Color, 'Eh?"

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Description: Humorous painting of two men, with bulbous red noses, are drinking cocktails inside a bar at the counter by the tavern front window. They are wearing hats ...

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