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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two men and two women in a dramatic pose. The woman in the center has her head in a noose and is sticking... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of Western Canoe Association members lounging in front of their tent camp. They are all wearing caps or hats. Near the center of the... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Seven members of the canoe association are posed around an eighth member, who is lying face down on a padded cot, covered with ferns. Ferns have been strat... |
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| Description: | Close-up of a man's shoe treading on someone's hand holding a cigar butt on the ground, with a shadow casting on the wall in the background. On the ground ... |
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| Description: | View of Sid, with a cigar in his mouth and holding a club, sitting on an animal-skin rug outdoors in what may be a quarry. He is wearing a rag mop on his h... |
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| Description: | Sid Boyum, with a cigar in his mouth, "shoots" pool with a rifle at a local bar. |
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| Description: | Composite image of a man wearing a suit standing in front of the Gisholt Machine Company entrance. He is looking up at a man scaled as tall as the building... |
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| Description: | Sid posing as a hobo, standing on a ladder on the back of a box car. He is wearing a wristwatch, and is looking over his left shoulder and carrying a bindl... |
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| Description: | Sid bending over a pool table in a game room using a shotgun as a pool cue. He is wearing a hat and has a cigar in his mouth. |
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| Description: | View across curved bar towards Sid and three other men at the Karabis tavern. Sid is laying on top of the bar on his back, with his head resting on a blank... |
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| Description: | View across curved bar towards Sid and three other men at the Karabis tavern. Sid is laying on top of the bar on his back with his eyes closed, his hands f... |
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| Description: | Sid, wearing a hat, coat, and scarf, and with a cigar in his mouth, is sitting on a bar stool at the Karabis tavern, toasting with the owner standing behin... |
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| Description: | A man wearing a straw hat, coat, eyeglasses, and hip waders is sitting on a log typing on a typewriter. A fishing pole is propped up on top of the typewrit... |
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| Description: | Funny portrait of a man looking up at a Gisholt machine resting on top of a his bald head. Below the round Gisholt trademark is the number 372-7306A. |
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| Description: | View from street of two men standing on the sidewalk in front of the Hofstetter tavern. The Gisholt sales representative standing on the left is holding a ... |
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| Description: | Sid sitting on a stool at the Karabis Bar with a cigar in his mouth. He is holding an umbrella in his right hand and a drink in his left hand, being filled... |
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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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