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1. Bucket, Ice - Ice bucket

   Thermal ice bucket with cover & side handles. Brown plastic with wildlife images on white by Les C. Kouba, including large pheasant and smaller duck, goose, & ruffed grouse prints. Matches pitcher 2016-0092-002.

   Record Type: Object

   
2. Card, Playing - Two decks of playing cards

   Boxed set of two decks of deVille playing cards with illustrations signed by artist Les Kouba. The red set show a totem pole and buildings on a lake with words "The Official End of the Gunflint Trail" and "Lowell Blake Specialties (Northern Branch)". The blue set features a drawing of a man holding three very large fish with words "Blake with the big ones". Set is in plastic box.

   Record Type: Object

   
3. Pitcher - Pitcher

   Thermo-Serve pitcher with cover & handle. Brown plastic with wildlife images on white by Les C. Kouba, including large pheasant and smaller duck, goose, & ruffed grouse prints. Matches ice bucket 2016-0092-001.

   Record Type: Object

   
4. Portrait - Charcoal-Martin McLeod by Les Kouba

   Charcoal drawing of Martin McLeod, Traverse des Sioux, July 17th, 1851. Drawn by L. C. Kouba in 1935 on textured paper. Leslie Carl Kouba was born in Hutchinson on February 3, 1917. A facsimile of the drawing was used on the cover of the 1978 McLeod County History book.

   Record Type: Object

   
5. Poster - Poster

   Framed poster that was rendered by Les C. Kouba on January 31, 1987 at the Playmor Ballroom in Glencoe. The occasion was the Down Home Tribute to Kouba at the McLeod County Historical Society Fundraising Dinner. The script for Coca-Cola was written upside down and backwards by Les Kouba as he spoke to the attendees about his life. The impromptu drawng by Kouba was auctioned off for $510 that evening. Donors listed were County Commissioners Larry ...

   Record Type: Object

   
6. Print, Photographic - Collage of Les & Orial Kouba photographs

   Framed collage of nine color & black & white reproduction photographs of Les & Orial Kouba wedding, the Kouba family, graphic art created by Kouba for Schmidt beer & Coca-Cola. Kouba Nature Center, Kouba wildlife art, groundbreaking of McLeod County Heritage Center & Kouba Gallery. Black wood frame; glass.

   Record Type: Photo

   
7. Print, Photographic - Jean & Stan Ewald w/ Les & Orial Kouba

   Colored photograph of Jean & Stan Ewald & Mrs. Les Kouba looking on as Les Kouba sketches on a piece of paper.

   Record Type: Photo