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| Description: | A coiffed blonde woman wearing shorts and a jersey is sitting in a chair with her left bare foot on the back of owner Cecil Burke, who is standing with her... |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a man gazing at the Statue of Liberty installation on a frozen and snow-covered Lake Mendota. The sculpture was constructed by the Pail and Sho... |
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| Description: | John "Commodore" Heggestad driving a car across Lake Monona on a pontoon. An article called "The 'Monona-Mobile'" was published in the Gisholt Machine Comp... |
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| Description: | NEW: Sid is standing outside of Mel's Food, begging with his hat in his hands. Sid is wearing sunglasses and has a cigar in his mouth. The back of a passe... |
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| Description: | Sid in darkroom with a cigar in his mouth, rolling a miniature, printed cut-out version of himself through a photographic print wringer in a darkroom. Sid ... |
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| Description: | View down bar towards two men pretending to cut the bar in half with a large saw. One of the men stands behind the bar on the left, and the other man stand... |
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| Description: | Sid sleeping on the floor near a desk in the darkroom at Gisholt with a cigar in his mouth. His legs are crossed and his head is resting on a cardboard box... |
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| Description: | View towards a shoreline where a man is facing away while urinating on a tree along a riverbank. Buildings are on the opposite side of the river and canoes... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Sid caught underneath a table during a bridal dinner. Sid is looking out from under a tablecloth draped over his neck after trays of dishes crashed to the ... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | View of the sunken Statue of Liberty created by legendary University of Wisconsin student Leon Varjian. |
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| Description: | A man, wearing a fur coat, galoshes, a hat, and goggles is pretending to ride a bicycle that is covered by icicles. The bicycle is parked outdoors along th... |
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| Description: | Portrait of a man with a pipe in his mouth posing while standing between storage shelves holding a large piece of cardboard or paper in the shape of a "U."... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | At an Ice Chippers dinner, a man is presenting another man with a toilet seat, which has a cartoon with the message: "Try this on your ice hole." Behind th... |
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| Description: | Curt Martin sitting in a clawfoot bathtub outdoors and holding oars as if the he was rowing. Behind the man are plants and a broken snow fence. |
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| Description: | Indoor portrait of a man sitting in a chair at a desk at Gisholt with his head covered by a big bowl, shaped like half an egg shell. Windows in the backgro... |
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| Description: | Self-portrait of Sid Boyum using a slave unit for a flash. He is wearing a shirt and necktie sitting on a toilet with his pants down around his ankles. He ... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | View uphill towards a woman sitting among a flock of pink flamingo lawn ornaments covering Bascom Hill. She is pretending to feed bread to two pink flaming... |
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