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| Description: | Portrait of Alex Jordan used on the cover of his biography, Alex Jordan: Architect of His Own Dream, written by Doug Moe. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Two-fold, imprinted invitation in red ink on off-white card stock to the annual Ice Chipper event. Inside text on the left is a fantasy story by Sid of Her... |
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| Description: | Four-fold, copy art birthday card with a photograph of a cat on the front cover, with the caption: "Wishing You 9 Lives." Inside spread of a photograph of ... |
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| Description: | Text in large red lettering reads: "Opinions Are Like Aholes, Everybody Has One!" over an amorphous shape of a person's rear end. |
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| Description: | Four-fold, copy art card with an image on the inside of a composite photograph and drawing of Sid using a trowel to spread mortar on a brick wall. On the b... |
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| Description: | Alex Jordan, creator of House on the Rock, eating and drinking with a group of men sitting around a table. |
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| Description: | Text in red lettering reads: "Sex is a Misdemeanor, The More You Miss The Meaner You Get." The words "miss" and "meaner" are underlined. |
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| Description: | Sid's illustration showing the range of infrared and ultraviolet radiation and the color sensitivity of Panchromatic and Ortho films compared to human visi... |
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| Description: | Sid's illustration showing the relationship between film, a camera lens and the light controls for aperture and shutter speed in photography. |
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| Description: | Workers posing outside a factory building at Gisholt Machine Company by a large sign for an employee contest that reads: "Safety Pays at Gisholt." The sign... |
| Date: | 1986 |
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| Description: | Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing that appeared in the Capital Times on May 3, 1986 with Sid's caption: "Before fish, all men are created equal. Fish,... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two employees running the internal printing press of Gisholt Machine Company. They are printing product pamphlets. |
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| Description: | Steve Hopkins, the outdoor writer for the Wisconsin State Journal, sits in an armchair reading a manuscript next to a fireplace in his cabin. There ... |
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| Description: | Line drawing on tissue paper showing the layout of the Gisholt plant buildings over two blocks at East Washington and Baldwin Streets. Shows streets and ra... |
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| Description: | Black-ink drawing of a bacchanalian scene with three naked women amidst three grape bunches. One is holding the stem of a champagne glass that is emitting ... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Portrait of the postal carrier Carl Wagner on the porch of Sid's house, displaying a Life magazine in his arms, and holding a stack of mail. |
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| Description: | Wooden scultpure of a dragon-styled cannon, painted and decorated fancifully, resting on wood cabinet-style television in Sid's living room. There is a boo... |
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| Description: | Cartoon drawing, black on white of a man wearing nothing but a barrel, which is labeled "Taxpayer." He is holding newspapers in each hand. The headlines re... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Cover of "The Needle," an underground magazine published in New York. The cover art, featuring a cherub-like creature with the face of Robert Kennedy, was ... |
| Date: | 1987 |
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| Description: | Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing titled, "Fish Tales (The Truth is Irrelevant, A Lie Well Told Lives Forever)." Sid adds the following words to describe the... |
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