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"Wishing You 9 Lives" Birthday Card
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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 Sid with a cigar in his mouth, holding a shovel over his shoulder while walking along the shoreline of a lake with his hand in his pocket. There is a drawing of a hill with trees superimposed over the photograph. Caption reads: "It is better to be over the hill — than under it."
Boyum, Sid, 1914-1991
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