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Sid Boyum with Sculpture

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Description: Sid Boyum playfully poking his head out from behind a sculpture of a woman's torso.
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Walt Handford Retirement Party

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Description: Sid Boyum presenting Walt Handford of Gisholt Machine Company with a signed piece of artwork at Walt's retirement party.
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Portrait of Young Sid with U.S. Flags

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a young Sid Boyum holding two U.S. Flags.
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Gisholt Machine Company Treasurer with Sid Boyum Art

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Description: The Gisholt Machine Company treasurer is standing and displaying a Sid Boyum drawing on top of a desk. The drawing was created for the treasurer in celebra...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Sid Boyum: Eccentric in Paradise

Date: 04 09 1979
Description: View of Sid Boyum sitting in his living room at 237 Waubesa Street. He is sitting on a couch and holding a jug previously used for vinegar, which he sculpt...
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Sid Boyum with Sculpture in Backyard

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Description: Sid is standing in his backyard posing with a sculpture. More sculptures and the torii gate are in the yard behind him among shrubs. The Madison-Kipp Corpo...
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Fiddle Player

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Description: Man playing fiddle in the kitchen of a house.
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Gisholdt Employees at Bar

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Description: View of Gisholt employees, all men, wearing suits and neckties, sitting around the bar of an unidentified tavern. On the wall on the right is a Sid Boyum c...
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Sid with Clay Model of Sambo

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Description: Sid posing with a clay model of Sambo, one of the Milwaukee County Zoo's gorillas during the 1950s. Sid is wearing a suit and has a cigar in his mouth. Beh...
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Ice Chippers Group Portrait

Date: 1957
Description: Group portrait of the Ice Chippers, members of a winter ice fishing group based in Madison. They are posing indoors, and Sid Boyum is sitting on the floor ...
Drawing

Man Looking at Picture in Gallery

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Description: Drawing of Sid Boyum standing with his hands behind his back holding a cigar and bending over to look closely at an artwork hung on the wall in a gallery. ...
Photograph

Portrait of Young Sid with U.S. Flags

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Description: Full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a young Sid holding two U.S. flags crossed above his head.
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Post-Pagoda Rewards for Sid and Friends

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Description: Sid and his friends celebrating at a restaurant after installing the roof for the pagoda in Sid's backyard. Russell Pratt Mecalf is 2nd from right raising ...
Drawing

Man Looking at Picture in Gallery

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Description: Drawing of Sid Boyum standing with his hands behind his back holding a cigar and bending over to look closely at an artwork hung on the wall in a gallery. ...
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 Film Event

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Description: View from front of room towards a group of men sitting down to watch a film together at the Gisholt factory.
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Photo Booth Images of Sid

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Description: Four photo booth portraits of Sid making faces. In the last, he has a cigar in his mouth. In all four, an unidentified hand is making shapes behind his hea...
Painting

Clown

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Description: Head-and-shoulders portrait of a balding clown with a painted face and curly red hair. He is wearing a large blue bow tie and an orange hat with a flower o...
Drawing

"Owen"

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Description: Portrait of a man, perhaps a bartender, wearing a suit and tie. In the background is a wall of bottles, various cocktail glasses, shakers and a lemon. Text...
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...

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