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Sid Holding Shovel
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Sid, wearing an overcoat and a hat, is standing along the Lake Monona shoreline with a cigar in his mouth. He is leaning with both hands on a shovel propped on the ground. The Madison skyline is in the far background.
Boyum, Sid, 1914-1991
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