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| Description: | Drawing of a man wearing an apron making cat nip tea. The man is using one hand to drop something into a pot on the stove, and with the other hand holding ... |
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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: | Cartoon image of a man face-down and going through a hand-cranked wringer, with his face looking at a martini glass sitting in front of him. His tie and to... |
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| Description: | Full-length caricature of a man in a suit and a hat facing left. Possibly a self-portrait. He is holding a hand-cranked clothes wringer behind his back. Te... |
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| Description: | Cartoon of Uncle Sam, on the left, rolling up his sleeves, watching a man and the Grim Reaper running towards him. In the center is a barrier marked: "Stan... |
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| Description: | A color cartoon face of a man to the left with numbers worked into his hair, throat, and neck tie, and a telephone attached to his collar. In lower right-h... |
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| Description: | Sid dressed in a suit and tie standing outdoors holding a sheet of paper that reads: "Fire Sale Soon" in front of an unknown building which during a fire. ... |
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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 ... |
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| Description: | A women's photographic head shot has been pasted onto a line drawing depicting her as the capital of a pillar. The pillar is decorated with flowers and hea... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Sid is crouching beneath a table. He has a cigar in his mouth, and is sticking his head out from under the tablecloth and smiling. On the floor is a chaoti... |
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| Description: | Sid sitting backwards on a donkey, with a cigar in his mouth and wearing a hat. He is looking through what appears to be a pair of binoculars. Caption at t... |
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| Description: | View of the livery stable, with a row of five buggies parked on the roof after Halloween. Seven boys are standing among the buggies on the roof, and anothe... |
| Date: | 08 1916 |
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| Description: | Jack is roped into his bedroll while asleep by prankster Doc Copeland. |
| Date: | 08 1916 |
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| Description: | Doc Copeland helps Jack wash off the toothpaste by dipping Jack's face in the Chippewa River. |
| Date: | 08 1916 |
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| Description: | Another view of Doc Copeland dipping Jack's face in the Chippewa River to wash off the toothpaste. |
| 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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| Description: | A whiffle-buck, a fictional creature made by combining antlers, fangs, and a head. It is posed as if it were peeking out from behind a felled tree. Caption... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of mischievous schoolboys in a classroom. One boy is reacting to something sharp on his desk chair and two boys are enjoying the results of the... |
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| Description: | Sid Boyum smiling at the camera, after receiving a gift at a dinner gathering with male colleagues from Gisholt Machine Company. The large, rectangular pac... |
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| Description: | Sid Boyum getting the joke, admiring his gag gift from Gisholt Machine Company co-workers after a dinner gathering. With a cigar in his mouth, he is holdin... |
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