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Sid Boyum Directing Video

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Description: Sid Boyum, at right in the director's chair, and a Gisholt executive on the left. They are sitting while working on a Gisholt film.
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Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Sid Boyum airbrushed photograph of a baby bottle in an electric bottle warmer.
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Gisholt Management Club

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Description: Sid Boyum wearing a hat with a sign for Gisholt attached to the front. Sid is standing and speaking at a Gisholt management club meeting. Men are sitting a...
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Schaerer Machine

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Description: Side view of the Schaerer metalworking (?) machine.
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Gisholt Machinery at Factory

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Description: A large machine indoors at the Gisholt factory.
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Gisholt V12 Machinery

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Description: Rendering of a new piece of Gisholt V12 machinery.
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Gisholt Pump Impeller

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Description: 1S Pump Impeller disassembled on tabletop with dark draped background.
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Sid Reaching for Cigar

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Description: View looking down at Sid's arm reaching through the empty bottom of a cigar box to pick a cigar off the sidewalk.
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Sid on Ladder of Box Car

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Description: Sid posing as a hobo, standing on a ladder on the back of a box car. He is wearing a wristwatch, and is looking over his left shoulder and carrying a bindl...
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Sid in front of Sanchez Photo

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Description: View from street of Sid standing on the sidewalk in front of the Sanchez Photo portrait studio at 11 North Pinckney Street. A large photograph of Sid smoki...
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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 ...
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Grandfather Clock in Entry Hall

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Description: Sid Boyum's entry hall, with grandfather clock, carved wooden dragon head bench, Egyptian motif painted paneling, and old black rotary dial telephone. Ther...
Drawing

Christmas Greeting Card with Sid

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Description: Composite image of a photograph of Sid superimposed on a drawing. Created for a one-fold, copy art Christmas greeting card, the graphic shows Sid sitting o...
Poster

Badger Backer Poster

Date: 1984
Description: Silk-screen print of University of Wisconsin-Madison mascot, Bucky Badger, in red ink on white paper. Bucky is running, and is wearing a striped sweater an...
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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.
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Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Black ink mechanical of a qraphic design for Gisholt Machine Company brand labeling and advertising.
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Sid Wins World Champion Liar

Date: 1976
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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St. Bernard's School

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Description: Children wearing coats and jackets walking into the St. Bernard's School entrance. (The building is located on Atwood Avenue down the street from St. Berna...
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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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Employees of the Cooperative Pharmacy of Madison

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Description: Elevated view of a group portrait of the employees posing behind the counter of the Cooperative Pharmacy of Madison.

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