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Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Screw

Date: 05 16 1969
Description: Cover of "The Screw," an underground newspaper, featuring the naked torso of a woman, holding a pipe in her lap. Caption at the bottom reads, "Warning-to a...
Photograph

"Windy City Kitty"

Date: 11 17 1943
Description: Mechanic Sergeant Raymond Smith of Ontario, Wisconsin, stands next to the nose art, "Windy City Kitty," depicting a naked woman in the "pin-up style" on th...
Photograph

Gathering of Men

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Description: Group portrait of a group of men posing sitting and standing around a table. There are several female nude photographs hanging on the wall behind them.
Poster

"Báječny Život" (Wonderful Life) Film Poster

Date: 1965
Description: Czechoslovakian film poster for the British film. At top right is a photographic waist-up image of a man hugging a woman from behind. Below them in the cen...
Poster

"Mandabi" Film Poster

Date: 1970
Description: Grove Press International Film Festival film poster for the Senegalese-French film. Illustrated image of two men and two women in black and white with a ye...
Poster

"Early Works" Film Poster

Date: 1970
Description: Grove Press International Film Festival film poster for the Yugoslavian film, "Rani radovi." Illustrated image of a woman wearing only an open coat and boo...
Poster

"The Most Beautiful Age" Film Poster

Date: 1970
Description: Grove Press International Film Festival film poster for the Czechoslovakian film, "Nejkrásnejsí vek." Illustrated image of the back of a naked woman standi...
Photograph

Shirley Clarke

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Description: Waist-up seated portrait of Shirley Clarke. She is holding a microphone and wearing a bowler hat and a black outfit with a white shirt, as well as a "Portr...
Photograph

All Aboard for Reierson Studio

Date: 1922
Description: Composite photograph of 65 photographic prints of young children and infants, trimmed out and attached to the photograph of an open bed truck parked in fro...
Photograph

After a Ducks Unlimited Meeting

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Description: Two men from Ducks Unlimited are playing cards at a table, while another man is looking at a poster created by Sid titled: "Secrets of a Sweater Girl." The...
Photograph

Female Model and Painted Horse

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Description: A nude female model painted partially with blue paint is standing outdoors holding the bridle of a horse painted with red and white stripes. The reverse si...
Photograph

"Tiger Woman"

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Description: Three-quarter length portrait of "Tiger Woman." Sitting on a stool before a white wall, the long-haired model states straight at Sid, the photographer.
Photograph

Gene Coffman with "Abstract Girl"

Date: 09 1965
Description: Gene Coffman, with a paintbrush in his mouth and holding a package of Disguise Stix©, standing next to "Abstract Girl" in his garage on Sommers Avenue. Th...
Photograph

"Abstract Girl"

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Description: Full-length portrait of "Abstract Girl" standing next to an abstract painting titled "Traffic" by artist, Sid Boyum. The painting was used as inspiration f...
Photograph

Back of "Abstract Girl"

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Description: Back of "Abstract Girl."
Photograph

"Flower Child"

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Description: Studio portrait of "Flower Child."
Photograph

"Beach Ball Girl"

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Description: Front view of "Beach Ball Girl." The painted model is crouching and holding an orange beach ball with "From Florida" printed on the front.
Photograph

Seated "Beach Ball Girl"

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Description: Seated view of "Beach Ball Girl" holding an apple.
Photograph

"Tiger Woman"

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Description: Full-length, black-and-white portrait of "Tiger Woman," a female model posing nude against a black paper backdrop. She is painted like a tiger with striped...
Photograph

"Tiger Woman"

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Description: Nude woman with body painting eating a plate of strawberries and whipped cream. Sitting on a stool in a garage, she is painted like a tiger, with stripes c...

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