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Invitation to a Winter Holiday Party

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Description: Hand-drawn invitation by Sid for a Gisholt Machine Company winter holiday party that reads: "Come what will — we observe our holidays still." Dec. 21st, 5 ...
Drawing

Card on Unrequited Love and Loss

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Description: Pen-and-ink drawing of an eye with a single tear superimposed on a doily heart decorated with stars. Piercing the heart from top to bottom is a sword. Two ...
Drawing

Three Naked Women with Grapes and Champagne Glass

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Description: Black-ink drawing of a bacchanalian scene with three naked women amidst three grape bunches. One is holding the stem of a champagne glass that is emitting ...
Drawing

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Illustration art in black ink of a locomotive pulling a long line of railroad cars in a strong diagonal composition. The engine advances to the lower left ...
Drawing

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Illustration art of an unmarked delivery van. All corners are rounded and the cab is more flat-fronted on added overlay than original drawn underneath. The...
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.
Print

Ice Chipper Annual Hookeree Invitation

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Description: Two-fold, imprinted invitation in green on off-white card stock to the annual Ice Chipper event. The cover graphic shows a geometric line-drawing of a lake...
Book or Pamphlet

Christmas Card with Sid Using a Trowel

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Description: Four-fold, cover with line drawing of a trowel topped by a star standing upright on a broken brick. Inside is a photograph of Sid using a trowel pointing a...
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50th Birthday Card

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Description: Black ink on yellow card stock birthday card. Illustration of a woman in heels and a long dress, short hair and glasses running down a steep and bumpy hil...
Drawing

Gisholt Polar Bear and Perch Club

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Description: ONe-fold, copy art invitation that is a drawing of a white bear wearing pants, a coat and hat riding on the back of a fish. The bear's hand is holding onto...
Drawing

Commercial Art for Cecil's Sandals

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Description: Drawing of an old man with a long beard and moustache holding a sand hourglass. On the left the caption reads: "Sandal styles are over 2000 years old, but ...

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