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Sid Holding Shovel

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Description: Sid, wearing an overcoat and a hat, is standing along the Lake Monona shoreline with a cigar in his mouth. He is leaning with both hands on a shovel proppe...
Photograph

Sid Carrying Shovel

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Description: Sid, wearing an overcoat and a hat, is strolling along the Lake Monona shoreline with a cigar in his mouth. He is carrying a shovel over his right shoulder...
Photograph

Reetz Pump House

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Description: View through open door towards the Reetz Pump House, where inside two men are operating a pump. One of them may be Steve Hopkins.
Photograph

Reetz Pump House

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Description: Reetz pump house, a small shed built under the base of a derrick. A woman is standing by the open door with her hand on her hip, and two men are inside, on...
Drawing

"First Play It Safe!"

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Description: A fisherman is standing precariously on the stern of a listing boat on a lake, holding his bent fishing rod with a taut line that is being pulled underwate...
Print

Invitation to Ice Chippers Farewell

Date: 1957
Description: Invitation for Ice Chippers, an ice fishing club of Gisholt Machine Company, to a farewell dinner for Albert LaGrille. The cartoon shows warmly dressed men...
Drawing

"An Invitation, Automation on Ice!"

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Description: Cartoon of warmly dressed men working on conveyor belt on a frozen lake. Fish on a stringer are being pulled up from a hole in the ice onto the conveyor be...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season (Unpublished)

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Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing that collages several scenes: the Madison skyline from the lakeshore of Lake Monona; Ted Ryan, a road maintenance worker, ...

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