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Sid Boyum in Printing Room at Gisholt Machine Company

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Description: Sid sitting and posing by the print dryer near the darkroom at Gisholt with a cigar in his mouth.
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Gisholt Machine Company Demonstration

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Description: A man in a suit demonstrating Gisholt machinery.
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Adjusting Gisholt Machinery

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Description: Two men making adjustments on a piece of Gisholt machinery.
Painting

Gisholt Lathe and Operater

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Description: Grey-tone painting of a Gisholt Automatic Lathe with a male operater standing on the right.
Photograph

Sid in Printing Room

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Description: Sid posing in the printing room near a darkroom at Gisholt Machine Company. He is wearing a long-sleeved white shirt with a patterned bow tie. A print drye...
Photograph

Sid in Printing Room

Date: 12 1968
Description: Sid poses rakishly in the printing room near the darkroom at Gisholt Machine Company. He is wearing a long-sleeved white shirt with a patterned bow tie. A ...
Painting

Operater with a Gisholt Lathe

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Description: A man standing on the left has his hands on the control panel of a Gisholt balancing machine. Graytone painting.
Photograph

Machinery at Gisholt

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Description: Machinery in the Gisholt factory. In the back of the room men are working with some of the machinery.
Photograph

Sid in a Printing Room

Date: 12 1968
Description: Sid posing next to the print dryer in the printing room near the darkroom at Gisholt Machine Company. He has his signature cigar, holding it to his mouth. ...
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Gisholt Duke

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Description: Waist-up portrait of a mechanic at Gisholt. He is wearing work clothes, a hat and a pair of safety glasses.
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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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Men Working in Gisholt Machine Company Factory

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Description: Group of men operating a machine suspended on chains attached to a crane inside the Gisholt factory.
Historical Object

"LIFE Visits Gisholt and Our Boy Sid"

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Description: Collage of a color newsprint comic of a photographer, who is operating a fantastic "Rube Goldberg" type camera with innumerable gadgets attached. The photo...
Photograph

Interior View of Gisholt Machine Company

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Description: Interior view of Gisholt Machine Company. Two men are standing next to large machinery, marked with the name "GRAY."
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Man Standing with Gisholt Machine

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Description: A man is standing and holding a part on top of a large piece of machinery inside the Gisholt factory. Behind him machinery parts are stored on shelving.
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Man Welding Machine at Gisholt Factory

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Description: A man is welding on a large machine inside the Gisholt factory. On the right a crane is holding another section of the machine.
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Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Machinist cooling a six-sided turret head at Gisholt Machine Company.
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Man Welding Machine at Gisholt Factory

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Description: A man is welding on a large machine inside the Gisholt factory. On the right a crane is holding another section of the machine.
Photograph

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...
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.

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