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Sid with Three Friends at a Bar

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Description: View from behind a bar of Sid, in center wearing a hat, standing with friends who are sitting at the bar. Sid's nails are stained, probably with pyrogallol...
Photograph

Three Men at a Bar

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Description: Three men sit at a bar socializing with a bartender and drinking shots. The man in the foreground is holding a cigarette. Various bottles of alcohol are in...
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Gisholdt Employees at Bar

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Description: View of Gisholt employees, all men, wearing suits and neckties, sitting around the bar of an unidentified tavern. On the wall on the right is a Sid Boyum c...
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Group Portrait of Men and Women at a Bar

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Description: A group of men and women sitting around a table smoking cigarettes and gesturing, probably at a bar or restaurant. One of the women is kicking her leg high...
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Men at Bar

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Description: Group portrait of men, including Sid's friend, Eugene Beckman (in front), sitting on stools and drinking at a fishing-themed bar. A man and a woman are sta...
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Ice Chippers at the Bar

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Description: Elevated view of men gathered at a bar before an Ice Chippers annual dinner. A poster on the wall depicts a bird with its head going through the sand so it...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1984
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a large muskelunge (muskie), badge number 315 and clad in cowboy boots with spurs, that takes control with his six-shoot...
Drawing

Bartender with Customer

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Description: A bartender is serving a customer in a bar while standing with his pants halfway down his legs exposing his backside. The title above the drawing reads: "I...
Drawing

Injured Bird

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Description: Drawing of an injured bird with bandages on its cheek, neck, and wing. Supported by a crutch, it is leaning against a bar by a drink with an ice cube on a ...
Drawing

Man Drinking Scotch

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Description: Drawing of a man wearing a tailcoat and a hat, drinking a bottle of Scotch with one hand while holding a jug of Bourbon labeled with a capital letter "K" o...
Photograph

Inga in Kitchen

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Description: Inga sitting in a chair in a kitchen with her feet up on the table. She has a cigarette in one hand a drink in the other, and is wearing a scarf over curle...
Photograph

Portrait of U.S. Navy Sailors

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Description: Portrait of two young U.S. Navy sailors sitting at a table in a tavern. There is a pack of Lucky Strike cigarettes and a book of matches in front of the mu...
Drawing

"Spring is Sprung"

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Description: Drawing of a naked man with a beard sitting in the grass and drinking from a tankard. His right leg is stretched up in the air. Bunches of grapes with gree...
Drawing

"'61 Was a Tuff Flight"

Date: 1961
Description: Colored drawing of an injured bird with bandages on its cheek, neck, and wing. Supported by a crutch, it is leaning against a bar by a drink with an ice cu...
Drawing

"Now, Joe, Here Can Really Hold His Martinis"

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Description: Drawing of a man in a tavern talking to another man behind him on the left and saying: "Now, Joe, here can really hold his martinis." The man talking has h...
Painting

"Lots of Local Color, 'Eh?"

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Description: Humorous painting of two men, with bulbous red noses, are drinking cocktails inside a bar at the counter by the tavern front window. They are wearing hats ...
Photograph

Audience for a Beauty Pageant

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Description: Formally dressed audience members are watching a beauty pageant in a smoky beer hall. The men are wearing suits with ties; the women are wearing dresses an...

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