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"LIFE Visits Gisholt and Our Boy Sid"
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Collage of a color newsprint comic of a photographer, who is operating a fantastic "Rube Goldberg" type camera with innumerable gadgets attached. The photographer's face has a black-and-white cutout of Sid Boyum's face pasted over it. A similar cutout of a Gisholt machine has been pasted over a cartoon football player standing with a young woman. Original cartoon signed by Projansky, dated 11/20/55, McClure Newspaper Syndicate. Hand-written text reads: "LIFE Visits Gisholt and Our Boy Sid."
Boyum, Sid, 1914-1991
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W01445B
WHi 124132
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Group Portrait of Gisholt Camera Club at Strobo Research
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Christmas Greeting Card with Sid
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Bernice Boyum Bergner
Bernice Boyum Bergner, Sid Boyum's sister, standing against the side of a clapboard building near a door.
Sid with Camera on Tripod
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Gisholt Movie
Three men are looking on, one running the movie camera, as a Gisholt worker is filmed working at a machine. The three men behind the camera are wearing suits or vests. The worker is wearing a long ...
