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Drawing

Paint Palette with Sid Portrait

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Description: Mixed media advertisement of a hand-drawn painter's palette with brushes and swatches of paint against a black background, with the text: "Sid Boyum Graphi...
Photograph

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Sid Boyum airbrushed photograph of a baby bottle in an electric bottle warmer.
Print

"Did You Have the Right to Pick Your Own Parents"

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Description: Two-fold, printed card. Humorous front text reads, "Did you have the right to pick your own parents?" and is signed: "Sid Boyum."
Photograph

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Illustrative art of dominoes falling in an "S" curve.
Drawing

Safety First

Date: 1959
Description: Drawing of an abstract shape in red, yellow, black and blue. It reads: "To You, Safety First, In 1959, Is A Personal Problem."
Print

"Some Times It's Hard to Pick Up A Buck!" Exterior

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Description: Two-fold graphic creation by Sid, exterior front and back. The front pictures a photograph of Sid looking down at a dollar bill on the ground. He is holdin...
Photograph

Sid Skiing Christmas Card

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Description: Composite of two images: one a photograph of a rock, the other a cutout photograph of Sid on skis. The image is depicting Sid flying through the air on sno...
Drawing

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Playful illustration art of a dog bowing down, tail wagging.
Painting

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Illustrative art of machine operator working with a turret.
Drawing

Christmas Card

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Description: Four-fold, copy art card with two graphics. One of a cloudy night sky and superimposed white outlined Christmas trees with text that reads: "No man is rich...
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...
Drawing

Machine Part

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Description: Illustration of a machine part. On the left is a white dashed outline of a hammer hitting encased ball bearings at the end of a cylinder.
Photograph

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Machinist cooling a six-sided turret head at Gisholt Machine Company.
Drawing

Illustration on Photography and Light Control

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Description: Sid's illustration showing the relationship between film, a camera lens and the light controls for aperture and shutter speed in photography.
Photograph

Sid on Christmas Card

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Description: Composite of photographs and hand-drawn elements with text for a humorous Christmas card. Sid is depicted pulling dissected pieces of himself together. He ...
Drawing

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 ...
Print

Greeting Card

Date: 1951
Description: Four-fold, copy art greeting card with two photographs. One on the front shows a man's hands writing "Greetings" on a card next to a photograph of Sid smok...
Print

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Color illustration art of a machine operator working on a six-arm turret. He is wearing a billed cap and safety goggles.
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.
Painting

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Illustration art of a gyroscope on a black speckled background with dashed white lines extending in six directions from the center. Lower right-hand corner...

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