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Ape and Two Men

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Description: Satirical ink-on-paper cartoon about corporate culture. An ape is sitting on a chair tilted back in front of a desk, and writing with a pencil in its foot ...
Drawing

"I'm a Lifeguard for Good Meats"

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Description: Advertising design for Nepco Meats, Co. showing a man in a sailor hat and overalls floating in a life buoy. Text on the right reads: "I'm a lifeguard for g...
Photograph

Composite Image of Two Men Standing in front of Gisholt

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Description: Composite image of a man wearing a suit standing in front of the Gisholt Machine Company entrance. He is looking up at a man scaled as tall as the building...
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Gisholt Machine Company Employees Working with Molten Metal

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Description: Two employees of Gisholt Machine Company are pouring molten metal from large cauldrons into molds as another worker looks on. A company supervisor is stand...
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Ice Chippers Dinner

Date: 1961
Description: A woman is standing and serving dinner to men sitting at long tables at the Ice Chippers meeting. Posters are taped to the wall behind the group, and inclu...
Drawing

Duck Hunter in the Board Room

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Description: Drawing with graphite and blank ink of a man posing with a shotgun over a photograph of a board room at Gisholt Machine Company.
Drawing

Coffee Breakers

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Description: In pencil on white card, a cartoon of a woman, probably a secretary, seen from the back, wearing a dress and high heels, with a typewriter for a head, a pe...
Photograph

"Tiger Woman"

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Description: A nude woman, with long hair, is standing and posing against a backdrop. Her body has been painted to look like the face of a tiger, with stripes on her ar...
Photograph

Catching a Fish in Moor's Barber Shop

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Description: A man (Sid?) sitting in a barber's chair is getting a straight-edge shave while holding a fishing rod with a large cutout of a giant fish caught on the fis...
Photograph

Catching a Fish in Moor's Barber Shop

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Description: A man (Sid?) sitting in a barber's chair is getting a straight-edge shave while holding a fishing rod with a large cutout of a giant fish caught on the fis...
Photograph

Fishers' Night Out

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Description: Elevated view of a crowded bar, all men, in the evening before a fishing banquet. Two men are bartending behind the rectangular shaped bar. A sign high up ...
Photograph

Dynetric 3U Balancer

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Description: A male employee standing at a machine. The caption along the left reads: "No. 9274A/Balancing a crankshaft in a Dynetric 3U Balancer." Gisholt Machine Comp...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Capitol from UW Extension Building

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Description: Elevated view (possibly) from a room through the window of the UW-Extension building on Lake Street, looking towards the Wisconsin State Capitol. The Orphe...
Photograph

Barber Shaving Man in Moon's Barber Shop

Date: 04 1954
Description: Barber shaving the head of a man in Moon's Barber Shop. The man getting shaved is holding a cigarette and is wearing hip waders rolled down over his knees....
Photograph

Gisholt Party at Restaurant

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Description: Slightly elevated view of the "Ice Chippers," an ice fishing club of Gisholt that are at a dinner in a restaurant. The men are wearing suits and ties, and ...
Photograph

Ducks Unlimited Chefs

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Description: Two chefs for a Ducks Unlimited dinner standing and posing for a portrait. Men are sitting on a couch on the left under a large painting of ducks. People a...
Drawing

"Strictly Business"

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Description: Cartoon of a man sitting behind the desk of an office in the Gisholt service department, talking to another man who is carrying a briefcase with the tag "G...
Photograph

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Color illustration art of a man operating a lathe at Gisholt Machine Company. A photograph has been heavily airbrushed with color.
Drawing

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Illustration art of a man standing by machinery is cupping his ear and listening to the sound of the machine at work. A kitten is sitting inside the machin...
Drawing

"Have That Automation Expert See Me"

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Description: Satirical ink-on-paper cartoon about corporate culture. It pictures a man holding a wrench in his hand is running on a treadmill attached to a machine with...

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