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Sid Wins World Champion Liar

Date: 1976
Description: Waist-up portrait of Sid Boyum in his backyard proudly holding a medal he won for an entry to the Burlington Liars Club in 1976. The entry read: "During a ...
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Sid Holding Fishing Pole in his Backyard

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Description: Sid standing with a fishing pole in his backyard. He is wearing folded down hip waders and he has a cigar in his mouth. He is standing with his foot proppe...
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Sid Holding Fishing Pole in his Backyard

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Description: Sid standing with a fishing pole in his backyard. He is wearing folded down hip waders and he has a cigar in his mouth. He is standing with his foot proppe...
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Sid Holding Fishing Pole in his Backyard

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Description: Sid standing with a fishing pole in his backyard. He is wearing folded down hip waders and he has a cigar in his mouth. He is standing with his foot proppe...
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Man Posing on Devil Statue in Wisconsin Dells

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Description: A man is posing in a running profile on top of one of two stone gargoyles that flanks an historical marker for the Dawn Manor in the Wisconsin Dells. Dedic...
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Cecil's Boot Ranch

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Description: Portrait of Jerry Smotherman, an employee of Cecil's Sandals and Boot Ranch, sitting on a western saddle placed over the back of the Southeast Asian-styled...
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Sculptures in Sid's Backyard

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Description: View across Sid's backyard with a shed structure in the background. In the yard are plants, trees, and sculptures which are surrounding a large, white, lan...
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Sid's Backyard with Sculptures and Factory Building

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Description: View looking into Sid's backyard with his concrete sculptures set among the trees and plants bordering the lawn. A large dog-lion sculpture is in the foreg...
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Goose Sculpture in Sid's Backyard

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Description: Prone flat sculpture of a goose in flight set in a bed of white gravel in the lawn of Sid's backyard. It is a gray slab cut to look like a flying bird. The...
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Sid with Toonerville in Winter

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Description: Sid standing in his snowy backyard looking at his wooden trolley, Toonerville, which has been covered with plastic for the winter. Some of Sid's sculptures...
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Sid Boyum on his Toonerville Trolley

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Description: View across the backyard of 237 Waubesa St. looking at Sid Boyum standing on the back of his wooden trolley, "Toonerville". Sid has a corncob pipe in his m...
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Arch and Sculptures in Sid's Backyard

Date: 1967
Description: View of Sid's backyard looking towards the back of the house. There is a large arch in the center with wind chimes hanging on it. Shrubs, trees, plants and...
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Torii Gate and Other Sculptures

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Description: Black-and-white image of the torii gate several cast-concrete sculptures - two white lanterns (one being the "Fu Dog Lantern") and the "Hippopotamus" in Si...
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Sid Sitting on of "Toonerville"

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Description: View of Sid sitting in his backyard on the back of his trolley car, "Toonerville," holding a stick in his hand and pretending to fish. Sid is wearing a lar...
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"Monumental Oriental Head"

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Description: View of the sculpture, titled "Monumental Oriental Head" of a Buddha in the backyard of Sid's house. In the background in the yard are other sculptures, an...
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Sid Posing with His Sculptures

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Description: Sid standing in the backyard on Waubesa Street among his forest of concrete cast sculptures, like the "Multi-Tiered Pagoda," "Blue Tripod," and "Biomorphic...
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Sid Boyum's Backyard

Date: 1970
Description: View of Sid Boyum's backyard, with an arch, pagoda, and sculptures among shrubs and trees. There is an empty pond under the arch. The Madison-Kipp Corporat...
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Sid Boyum's Backyard

Date: 1970
Description: View of Sid Boyum's background. There is a large arch in the center with wind chimes hanging on it. Shrubs, trees, plants and other sculptures are on eithe...
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Sid Boyum's Backyard

Date: 1970
Description: Elevated view of Sid Boyum's background taken from the second floor of his house. There is a large arch in the center with wind chimes hanging on it. Shrub...
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Sid Boyum's Backyard

Date: 1970
Description: View of Sid Boyum's backyard, with an arch, pagoda, and sculptures among shrubs and trees. The Madison-Kipp Corporation factory is in the background.

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