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Sid Standing in Hole for Torii Gate

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Description: Sid is standing in the hole he has dug in the ground for the torii gate.
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Sid Fishing in Rowan Creek

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Description: View looking down towards Sid, with a cigar in his mouth, sitting on the limb of a fallen tree while trout fishing in Rowan Creek.
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Sid Looking at Torii Gate

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Description: Sid looking up at the torii gate in his backyard. Madison-Kipp Corporation is in the background behind a chain-link fence.
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Man Helping Sid Install Torii Gate

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Description: Sid and a man erecting the torii gate in Sid's backyard. Madison-Kipp Corporation is in the background behind a chain-link fence.
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Sid Building Sculpture Form

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Description: Sid Boyum, with a cigar in his mouth, is standing on a ladder while building a wooden form for his concrete casting of an abstract geometric sculpture that...
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Hindsite, Foresight

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Description: Sid sitting backwards on a donkey, with a cigar in his mouth and wearing a hat. He is looking through what appears to be a pair of binoculars. Caption at t...
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Sid Sitting on Stool Under Torii Gate

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Description: View towards backyard with Sid is sitting on a stool under the torii gate that has recently been anchored into the ground. He has a pitchfork. Madison-Kipp...
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Sid Posing with His Sculptures

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Description: Sid standing in the backyard on Waubesa Street among his forest of concrete cast sculptures, like the "Multi-Tiered Pagoda," "Blue Tripod," and "Biomorphic...
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White "Multi-Tiered Pagoda"

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Description: Unfinished cast-concrete sculpture identified as "Multi-tiered Pagoda" and measuring 92" x 32" x 32." It is standing in Sid Boyum's backyard. The brick wal...
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Man's Shoe and Cigar Butt

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Description: Close-up of a man's shoe treading on someone's hand holding a cigar butt on the ground, with a shadow casting on the wall in the background. On the ground ...
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"Guardian Lion" in Blue

Date: 09 1969
Description: Southeast Asian-styled "Guardian Lion" concrete-cast sculpture on a large rectangular base painted blue in Sid's backyard. In the background is the white "...
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"Multi-Tiered Pagoda"

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Description: White-washed, cast-concrete sculpture identified as "Multi-tiered Pagoda" and measuring 92" x 32" x 32". It stands in Sid's backyard in front of a tree. Tw...
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"Geometric with Round Window"

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Description: Towering abstract sculpture of cast concrete mortar on a square base, identified as "Geometric with Round Window," near the side of a house. It is composed...

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