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Man Pretending to Play a Fishing Pole with a Bow

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Description: A man sitting on plastic buckets in a store selling floor materials pretending to play a fishing pole with a bow. The man is wearing hip waders pulled down...
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Holtzkopf Wood Carver Studio at House on the Rock

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Description: Exterior view of the Günter Holtzkopf Wood Carving Studio. A large ship's figurehead of a woman extends out from the balcony above the entrance. This image...
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Wirth Lamp Shop at House on the Rock

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Description: Exterior view looking through the shop windows of the Fredie P. Wirth Lamp Shop. This image was used in the original brochure for the House on the Rock.
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Gisholt Machine Company Sales Material

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Description: Drawing depicting a man with a moustache, eyeglasses, and a safari hat smoking a pipe above the words "Gisholt Sales Safari."
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Sales Safari

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Description: Drawing depicting a man wearing a suit and a safari hat crouching on the ground next to his briefcase, following the scent of an "Order" to dollar signs. T...
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Gisholt Sales Safari Lion

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Description: Gisholt Sales Safari drawing depicting a man wearing a suit and a safari hat carrying a briefcase on a stick over his shoulder. He has a hand over his eyes...
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Swatting on the Gisholt Sales Safari

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Description: Drawing depicting the Gisholt Sales Safari man lunging to catch an "Order" and dollar signs with a flyswatter. His hat is falling off his head. On the left...
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Using Tact on Gisholt Sales Safari

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Description: Drawing depicting the Gisholt Sales Safari man using "Tact" to keep a gorilla happy. The man, who is sweating and holding something in his hand as an offer...
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Ducks Unlimited Prize Night

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Description: Three men are standing on a stage near a display of prize items to be given away during a Ducks Unlimited event. The Harley-Davidson motorcycle was donated...
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Gisholt V12 Machinery

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Description: Rendering of a new piece of Gisholt V12 machinery.
Drawing

Drawing of an Advance Mechanism

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Description: Drawing of a semi-closed hand advancing a radial dial at the Gisholt Machine Company. The graphic was used for advertising.
Photograph

General Store

Date: 1974
Description: Black watercolor of a single-story store with large wood-framed, plate-glass windows, a false front and a pitched roof. The building's external side wall b...
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...
Poster

"Concerts on the Square"

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Description: Square poster for "Concerts on the Square" that shows a conductor's hand holding a baton with musical notes floating around the frame and over a photograph...
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"Balanced Performace"

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Description: Elevated view of men working on the assembly line at Rayovac. The title is "Balanced Performance." Written in pencil on parts of the drawing are "Pitch," "...
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Sandals

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Description: Drawing of red-bearded leprechaun with a pipe in his mouth. He is holding up a curved bat (perhaps a shillelagh) in one hand and an oversized three-leafed ...
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Buy Now Sandal Sale

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Description: Drawing of a pinkish-red rabbit jumping out of a black top hat. It's black body is the outline of the sole of a left shoe. Pink eggs decorated with black s...
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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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Commercial Art for Cecil's Sandals

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Description: Drawing of a human face on the bottom of a sandal. On its body the caption reads: "Don't buy booze. Don't buy shoes. Buy Cecil's sandals." Printer's instru...

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