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Sid at Barbershop
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Sid is sitting in a barber's chair with a cigar in his mouth, and the barber standing behind him. The barber is holding some kind of hat contraption over Sid's head. There is a mirror with their reflections in it on the wall in the background. A calendar on the back wall on the right is from Meyers Drugs.
Boyum, Sid, 1914-1991
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