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Sid Posing with Elephant

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Description: View down sidewalk towards Sid, wearing a white coat, white hat, and boots, standing beside an elephant while holding a shovel in his right hand with his r...
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Sid Posing with Elephant Sitting on Bench

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Description: View across sidewalk towards Sid standing and holding a shovel while posing next to an elephant sitting on a bench outdoors. Sid is wearing a white coat, w...
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Sid Posing with Elephant

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Description: View down sidewalk towards Sid, wearing a white coat, white hat, and boots, standing beside an elephant while holding a shovel in his right hand with his r...
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Sid Posing with Elephant Sitting on Bench

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Description: View across sidewalk towards Sid standing and holding a shovel while posing next to an elephant sitting on a bench outdoors. Sid is wearing a white coat, w...
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Sid Posing on Stone Wall in Cemetery

Date: 1961
Description: View of Sid posing sitting with his feet up on the stone wall at the entrance to a cemetery with a July 1961 calendar under his arm and a cigar in his mout...
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Verne with Horse-Drawn Vehicle

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Description: View across road towards Verne standing next to a horse-drawn vehicle, which appears to have been made from an old automobile. In the background is a field...
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Sid with Horse-Drawn Vehicle

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Description: View across road towards Sid standing next to a horse-drawn vehicle, which appears to have been made from an old automobile. In the background is a field.
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Sid Holding Fishing Pole in his Backyard

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Description: Sid standing with a fishing pole in his backyard. He is wearing folded down hip waders and he has a cigar in his mouth. He is standing with his foot proppe...
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Sid Holding Fishing Pole in his Backyard

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Description: Sid standing with a fishing pole in his backyard. He is wearing folded down hip waders and he has a cigar in his mouth. He is standing with his foot proppe...
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Sid Holding Fishing Pole in his Backyard

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Description: Sid standing with a fishing pole in his backyard. He is wearing folded down hip waders and he has a cigar in his mouth. He is standing with his foot proppe...
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Man Posing as a Fisherman in Sid's Backyard

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Description: A man posing with a fishing pole in his hand is bending over while leaning against a board in Sid's snowy backyard. He is wearing hip waders, a hat, and a ...
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Cecil's Boot Ranch

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Description: Portrait of Jerry Smotherman, an employee of Cecil's Sandals and Boot Ranch, sitting on a western saddle placed over the back of the Southeast Asian-styled...
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Cecil's Boot Ranch

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Description: A cowboy hat, a western saddle and a pair of cowboy boots produced by Cecil's Sandals on the Southeast Asian-styled "Guardian Lion" sculpture in Sid's back...
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unidentified Man next to Tree

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Description: View towards a shoreline where a man is facing away while urinating on a tree along a riverbank. Buildings are on the opposite side of the river and canoes...
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Sid Sitting on of "Toonerville"

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Description: View of Sid sitting in his backyard on the back of his trolley car, "Toonerville," holding a stick in his hand and pretending to fish. Sid is wearing a lar...
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Sid Sitting on Stone Wall at Cemetery

Date: 1961
Description: Sid is sitting on a stone wall looking out over a graveyard. He is wearing a hat and a checkered hunting jacket and has a cigar in his mouth. A stream of f...
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Sid with "Gnome"

Date: 1990
Description: Sid posing with the "Gnome" sculpture in his backyard, hand resting on its head. Holding a signature cigar in his mouth, he is wearing a dark beret, a shor...
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Sid Standing with "Gnome"

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Description: Sid standing with the "Gnome" sculpture in his backyard. Holding a cigar in his mouth, he wears a dark beret, a short-sleeved white button-down shirt, dark...
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Man in Bathtub Outdoors

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Description: Curt Martin sitting in a clawfoot bathtub outdoors and holding oars as if the he was rowing. Behind the man are plants and a broken snow fence.
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Farm Scene

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Description: Pen and Ink drawing of a man digging in a small, fenced-in field. Two cows, a haystack and numerous farm buildings are in the yard, and a farmhouse, trees ...

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