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Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1976
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing that appeared in the Wisconsin State Journal on May 1, 1976 with Sid's caption: "The Atwood-Ave Clean Fresh Water An...
Drawing

Scuba Diver Fishing Underwater

Date: 08 1963
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a man wearing diving gear is fishing underwater. He is sitting on the lake bed among weeds with a worm on the end of his...
Photograph

Group Portrait of Sid's Family

Date: 1915
Description: Group portrait of Sid's family: Severt and his mother (?), with Sid in the center, and his younger sister Bernice on the woman's lap.
Photograph

Steve Hopkins and Roger Debenham Posing with Trout

Date: 05 1973
Description: Steve Hopkins and Roger Debenham posing in Sturgeon Bay with seven trout they caught on Lake Michigan hanging from pegs under a sign that reads, "Bay Chart...
Photograph

Barber Shaving Man in Moon's Barber Shop

Date: 04 1954
Description: Barber shaving the head of a man in Moon's Barber Shop. The man getting shaved is holding a cigarette and is wearing hip waders rolled down over his knees....
Photograph

Gisholt Tech

Date: 12 15 1978
Description: NEW: View of a man sitting on a stool at a work table with a piece of machinery, probably at the Gisholt factory. He is wearing eyeglasses and is smoking ...
Photograph

Ice Chippers Dinner

Date: 1961
Description: A woman sitting on the lap of a man at an Ice Chippers event. Several more men are sitting at the table. Posters are taped to the wall behind the group, an...
Photograph

Ice Chippers Ice Hole

Date: 1961
Description: At an Ice Chippers dinner, a man is presenting another man with a toilet seat, which has a cartoon with the message: "Try this on your ice hole." Behind th...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season - The Angler

Date: 1966
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a fly fisherman in waders hooking a large fish while standing in a stream. Unseen, the fish is creating a large splash. ...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1969
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a cricket or grasshopper serenading a large trout swimming underwater. The insect is playing a violin, while standing on...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1983
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of three fisherman, Clyde (Bud) Chamberlain with his creel, Stan Hamre, who has fallen backward into the water, and Carl Vo...
Photograph

"Monona-Mobile" on Lake Monona

Date: 1955
Description: View across water towards the "Monona-Mobile" (pontoon car) on Lake Monona, close to a pier on the left where a man is standing and watching. Buildings on ...
Photograph

Men with Monona-Mobile

Date: 1955
Description: A group of men are standing on the pontoons of the "Monona-Mobile" (pontoon car) which is near a pier on the left. The Wisconsin State Capitol is in the fa...
Photograph

Commodore Heggestad with "Monona-Mobile"

Date: 1955
Description: View from pier of John "Commodore" Heggestad of Department 40 of Gisholt proudly standing on the pontoon of the "Monona-Mobile" (pontoon boat) on which his...
Photograph

Ducks Unlimited Promotion

Date: 02 1964
Description: Group portrait of four men, taken at the Club Chanticleer, holding up a banner depicting ducks in a marsh. There is a "Support Ducks Unlimited" poster in t...
Drawing

Deer Hunting Scene

Date: 11 1963
Description: In the woods, a man is cooking over a campfire, while a deer carcass is hanging from the branch of a tree. Sid's poem accompanying the image in the newspap...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season - The Reverse

Date: 1979
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a man dressed in fishing gear suspended above the fireplace in a living room from a nail in the wall. Below the man is a...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1964
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a view from a riverbank of a fly fisherman in hip waders, who is standing in a stream while hooking a bass. The fish is ...
Photograph

Gisholt Commercial Art

Date: 02 1947
Description: Illustrative art showing a close-up of a man's dress shoe strapped onto a roller skate with leather bindings. A pants cuff and hint of an argyle sock are v...
Drawing

Gisholt Advertising Art

Date: 06 29 1948
Description: Black ink on white card, of three images in cartoon-style. The top image is of a group of men admiring a Gisholt Lathe, the middle image is of a man runnin...

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