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50th Birthday Card

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Description: Black ink on yellow card stock birthday card. Illustration of a woman in heels and a long dress, short hair and glasses running down a steep and bumpy hil...
Drawing

Santa Claus Riding a Turret Lathe

Date: 1953
Description: Composite drawing of Santa Claus riding a Gisholt Machine Company lathe as a sleigh and holding a starred whip in hand to guide a team of eight flying rein...
Drawing

Everlasting Life

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Description: Drawing of a vampire wearing black-and-red cape, dancing with a naked woman with long black hair and closed eyes in a mysterious and bleak setting. There a...
Document

Graduation Party Invitation

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Description: Four-fold page in black on white. In one quarter, a man is dressed in black pants, white lab coat, stethoscope, doctor's head reflector, and graduation cap...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1985
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing that appeared in the Capitol Times May 3, 1985 with Sid's caption: "Charlie Lunker Bass is down at the rustic barber...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1974
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a fisherman in waders, standing in ankle deep water and bending over with one hand in the water. He is looking towards h...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season - Fish Tales

Date: 1987
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing titled, "Fish Tales (The Truth is Irrelevant, A Lie Well Told Lives Forever)." Sid adds the following words to describe the...
Print

Ice Chipper Annual Hookeree Invitation

Date: 1953
Description: Two-fold, imprinted invitation in black ink on off-white card stock to the annual Ice Chipper event. Inside text are the poetic details for the Hookeree fi...
Print

Ice Chipper Annual Hookeree Invitation

Date: 1953
Description: Two-fold, imprinted invitation in gold ink on off-white card stock to the annual Ice Chipper event. The cover graphic is humorous play on the fisherman as ...
Print

Certificate Share in Gisholt Ice Chippers

Date: 1956
Description: Certificate for Gisholt Ice Chippers, with a cartoon of group of fishermen, milling about turned over wine bottles and cheering as an oil rig gushes fish o...
Print

Ice Chipper Annual Hookeree Invitation

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Description: Two-fold, imprinted invitation in green on off-white card stock to the annual Ice Chipper event. Inside graphic is a line-drawing cartoon of an ice fisherm...
Print

Invitation to Ice Chippers Farewell

Date: 1957
Description: Invitation for Ice Chippers, an ice fishing club of Gisholt Machine Company, to a farewell dinner for Albert LaGrille. The cartoon shows warmly dressed men...
Print

Four-fold card "In Memory of My Mother"

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Description: Four-fold, copy art card with front panel shows a religious statue of a woman sheltering three children under her mantle. On the inside, the left panel a b...
Drawing

Invitation to Ice Chippers Gathering

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Description: Invitation for Ice Chippers in black ink, white tempura and blue paint on orange card. It is a drawing of Gene Beckman in a black hooded winter coat, kneel...
Print

Ice Chipper Annual Hookeree Invitation

Date: 1955
Description: Two-fold, imprinted invitation in red ink on white card stock to the annual Ice Chipper event. The cover graphic is a cartoon of a warmly dressed man expir...
Print

Ice Chipper's Annual Ball Invitation

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Description: Two-fold invitation to the Ice Chipper's annual ball. The front, with humorous text "Eugene Beckman Here's Lookin at Your Ice Hole," has a round hole cutou...

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