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Certificate Share in Gisholt Ice Chippers
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Certificate for Gisholt Ice Chippers, with a cartoon of group of fishermen, milling about turned over wine bottles and cheering as an oil rig gushes fish onto the ice. The certificate authorizes the following to the holder: "a genuine Piscatorial Wild Catter, is invited to drill for a Perch Gusher on January 28 at 9 A.M. on the Mendota Bad Lands. / All stockholders are requested to gather for accrued stock liquidation, and digest some at Dry Hole Burke's Swizzle Stick Salon on February 13 at 7:30 P.M." The certificate lists the usual officers with humorous titles.
1956
Boyum, Sid, 1914-1991
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WHi 124596
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Ice Chippers Dinner
1957
Group portrait of the "Ice Chippers," an ice fishing club of Gisholt workers gathered for their annual dinner. A man on the right is holding a hand-drawn poster of a man ice fishing from inside an ...
Gisholt Party at Restaurant
Slightly elevated view of the "Ice Chippers," an ice fishing club of Gisholt that are at a dinner in a restaurant. The men are wearing suits and ties, and are seated at long tables. On the walls ar...
Ice Chippers Ice Hole
1961
At an Ice Chippers dinner, a man is presenting another man with a toilet seat, which has a cartoon with the message: "Try this on your ice hole." Behind the men, posters are taped to the wall and i...
Invitation to Ice Chippers Farewell
1957
Invitation for Ice Chippers, an ice fishing club of Gisholt Machine Company, to a farewell dinner for Albert LaGrille. The cartoon shows warmly dressed men processing fish on a frozen lake (Mendota...
Group Portrait of Sid and Three Men on Frozen Lake
Group portrait of Sid Boyum and three other men, likely of the Gisholt Ice Chippers fishing club, standing on the ice with sleds and fishing equipment.
Ice Chippers Group Portrait
1957
Group portrait of the Ice Chippers, members of a winter ice fishing group based in Madison. They are posing indoors, and Sid Boyum is sitting on the floor in the center holding a cigar. On the righ...
