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| Description: | A Mills Violano Virtuoso adds frets and strings to violins. This image was used in the original House on the Rock brochure. |
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| Description: | The Hupfeld Violin Machine is set into the wall. This image was used in the original House on the Rock brochure. |
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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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| 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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| Description: | Sculpture of a woman's torso called "Biomorphic Female Abstract in Pink" in Sid's backyard near the side of the house. Snow is on the ground. |
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| Description: | Semi-abstract, yellow cast concrete sculpture, called "Female Teardrop." Similar to prehistoric "Venus" figures, it has prominent breasts and wide hips. Th... |
| Date: | 02 1970 |
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| Description: | View of Sid's backyard, with a Japanese structure and sculptures in the snow. Madison-Kipp Corporation is in the background. |
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| Description: | Illustrative art of machine operator working with a turret. |
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| Description: | Black-line head-and-shoulders caricature of President Jimmy Carter, with over-sized grin. Text reads: "But - I am my brother's keeper." |
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| Description: | Watercolor painting of a female nude, posed as an odalesque on pink blanket or cushion, with brown background. Lettering in black across the bottom reads: ... |
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| Description: | Drawing of a hungover man with a large red nose, red lips, and blood-shot, bulging eyes. The text reads: "Who Said 'Good Morning?'" |
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| Description: | Portrait of man's head in profile above the word "October." On the right is a full-length sketch of a naked man, covering his genitals and grimacing. |
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| Description: | Japanese Tea Pavilion, multi-tiered pagoda and the torii gate in Sid's backyard. Madison-Kipp Corporation is in the background. |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Sid Boyum in his backyard proudly holding a medal he won for an entry to the Burlington Liars Club in 1976. The entry read: "During a ... |
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| Description: | Four-fold, copy art Christmas card made by Sid with two photographs of damaged commercial buildings after a fire. In one image, Sid stands on the slushy st... |
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| Description: | Sid standing with the "Gnome" sculpture in his backyard. Holding a cigar in his mouth, he wears a dark beret, a short-sleeved white button-down shirt, dark... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Sid Boyum's background taken from the second floor of his house. There is a large arch in the center with wind chimes hanging on it. Shrub... |
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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... |
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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... |
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