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| Description: | Portrait of a man sitting indoors in a chair with his eyes closed. A bottle is resting on his shoulder, and a sign has been placed on his lap that reads: "... |
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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: | Sid, with a cigar in his mouth, a metal lampshade on his head, and wearing a backpack, is laying across two desks in an office with a broom in his arms as ... |
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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: | Composite of two photographic images depicting Sid flying through the air on snow skis, which have run into a huge rock. The tips of the skis have broken o... |
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| Description: | View from lawn towards Sid standing on skis in a driveway, lifting up one of the ski poles. Sid is wearing a coat, hat, and shoes, and has a cigar in his m... |
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| Description: | Composite of photographs and hand-drawn elements with text for a humorous Christmas card. Sid is depicted pulling dissected pieces of himself together. He ... |
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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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