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Photograph

Package of Disguise Stix©

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Description: Shrink wrapped package of the original Disguise Stix©, the body paint developed by Gene Coffman, of Gratco Corporation.
Drawing

Cecil's Sandals

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Description: Pen and ink drawing of a young girl wearing sandals with the caption: "In the Know • On the Go! in Cecil's Sandals."
Drawing

Commercial Art for Cecil's Sandals

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Description: Pen and ink drawing of the backside of a small, naked boy holding an ice cream cone while wearing Cecil's Sandals with the caption: "Beat the Heat in Cecil...
Drawing

Commercial Art for Cecil's Sandals

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Description: Pen and ink drawing of a man with a large nose looking down at his feet. He is wearing sandals. Caption reads: "He Nose Comfort and Health from Head to Toe...
Print

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Color illustration art of an overhead view of a man operating a Number 5 Ram Turret machine with a control panel. Metal shavings are scattered on the machi...
Photograph

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Illustration art of two female factory workers speaking to each other. The woman on the left is in three-quarter view. She has her arm raised with index fi...
Print

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Color illustration art of a machine operator working on a six-arm turret. He is wearing a billed cap and safety goggles.
Drawing

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Illustration art of an engineer wearing work clothes and introducing a Gisholt Machine Company turret lathe.
Photograph

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Professional illustration art of a hydraulic automatic lathe. The close-up view shows a machining tool with angled bits, presumably at Gisholt Machine Comp...
Photograph

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Professional illustration art of the No. 12 Automatic Production Lathe by Gisholt Machine Company with a close=up of the product plate and trademark. The b...
Photograph

Gisholt Commerical Art

Date: 1942
Description: Illustration of an airbrushed composite photograph picturing an older worker standing with his arm around a young man and pointing to a machine.
Painting

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Illustrative art of machine operator working with a turret.
Photograph

Gisholt Commercial Art

Date: 08 1942
Description: Illustration art of a machine operator in work clothes and a billed cap with safety goggles standing next to a Type S Dynetric Balancer at the Howell Elect...
Photograph

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Illustration art of a full-length view of a female factory worker, waving her right hand as she steps toward the viewer. She is wearing belted coveralls ov...
Drawing

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Humorous illustration art of a male tightrope walker wearing tights, slippers and v-necked top struggling for balance. He has one foot on the wire, and the...
Painting

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Illustration art of eleven men in business suits and hats, showing head and shoulders in an "S" curve. They are all smiling against a white background.
Poster

Reagan Poster

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Description: A cartoon line drawing in black of Ronald Reagan in profile, as a caricature, with the text, in red that reads: "I don't want Carter's job America needs a ...
Poster

""Ohio Tavern Women's Bowling Team League Champs"

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Description: Text reads, "Ohio Tavern Women's Bowling Team League Champs, '79-'80" lettered in red, except for "Women's" which is in black. Curlicue designs fill top tw...
Poster

"If You Are Smarter . . ."

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Description: Composite poster, with a piece of paper with a caricature of President Jimmy Carter with big grin filled with real peanuts, and the words "Direct Washingto...
Poster

"Jiggin and Swiggin"

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Description: Poster for the Ohio Tavern. In the center is a caricature of an Irish leprechaun, smoking a pipe and dancing with a glass in his hand. In the upper left mu...

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