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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. Lamp - Wall beer lamp and copper fixture

   Wall beer lamp containing copper ring fixture with extended prong for lamp shade. Copper ring has a small red label with white letters"Schmidt" and a small blue label with white letters "The Brew that Grew with the Great Northwest." The long narrow lampshade has 4 scenes in color designed and signed by Les Kouba of fish, cowboys, pheasants, and pronghorns, with word "Schmidt" in red letters above each picture and 2 blue stripes with white lette...

   Record Type: Object

   
3. Lamp - Wall beer lamp and copper fixture

   Wall beer lamp containing copper ring fixture with extended prong for lamp shade. Copper ring has a small red label with white letters"Schmidt" and a small blue label with white letters "The Brew that Grew with the Great Northwest." The long narrow lampshade has 4 scenes in color designed and signed by Les Kouba of fish, cowboys, pheasants, and pronghorns, with word "Schmidt" in red letters above each picture and 2 blue stripes with white lette...

   Record Type: Object

   
4. Mount, Taxidermy - Rooster pheasant

   Rooster pheasant taxidermy mount. Signed: "By Les C. Kouba 1933". Round wood base.

   Record Type: Object

   
5. Mural - Picking corn in the 1930s mural

   Large colorful mural of a farmer picking corn in the 1930s. Reproduced and painted by Dave Wegscheid from Les C. Kouba painting "Corn Pickin' in the 1930's". Images of a team of horses hitched to a bang board wagon with large wooden wheels in a field of ripened & unpicked ear corn. A farmer dressed in blue shirt, overalls and cap is tossing shucked/husked ears into the wagon. A farmstead witha hay/straw stack, barn, silo, house, shed, 2 corn c...

   Record Type: Object

   
6. 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

   
7. Postcard - Hunters

   Black & white photographic postcard of four pheasant hunters, identified (l to r) Dick Perschau, Emil Eggert, Matt Classen, Bill Reimers. The pheasants they shot are hung from a wood beam stretched between a barrel and sawhorse. A rail car and grain elevator are background left and fuel tanks and railroad cars are visible at right.

   Record Type: Archive

   
8. Postcard - Marie Fratzke

   Sepia toned photographic postcard showing Marie Fratzke seated at a desk writing. Note the pheasant decor, the hunting photo and a small unreadable calendar.

   Record Type: Archive

   
9. Print - "Black Labrador"

   Les Kouba print of a black lab carrying a pheasant through a harvested cornfield with a farmplace in the background. Framed in blond wood. Named "Black Labrador," this print was a commissioned painting for Dr. Paul Arnesen of Mankato of his dog "Tor". Les Kouba learned to know Dr. Arnesen through Les' work with the Johnson Reel Company. See Notes.

   Record Type: Object

   
10. Print - Cornfed Ringnecks print, Les C. Kouba

    Unframed Les Kouba print "Cornfed Ringnecks". Artist signature at lower right. A pair of Chinese Ringneck pheasants are looking for a meal in a snow-covered cornfield. A limited edition upland game bird art print by a nationally known artist who believed in placing his sujects in their natural habitat and stroe to create a feeling of season, place and circumstance.

    Record Type: Object

    
11. Print - "Headin' for Shelter"

    Framed artist's proof of the print "Headin' For Shelter" by Les C. Kouba. He is showing us a winter scene with a flock of pheasants headed for shelter in the snow along an old fence line with a corner post. Kouba poured true detail and nostalgia into the painting with an old hay rake and a typical Midwest farmstead in the background. Signed at lower right corner. Wood frame; glass. The success of "Headin’ for Shelter" gave Les Kouba the inspirat...

    Record Type: Object

    
12. Print - "In Shelter"

    Framed artist's proof of the print "In Shelter" by Les Kouba. Thirteen pheasants in a typical Midwest farmyard with house, barn and outbuildings in the background and a corncrib nearby. Signed at lower right corner. Wood frame; glass. The success of "Headin’ for Shelter" gave Les Kouba the inspiration for a series based on thirteen pheasants. "In Shelter is the second picture in the series. In the first painting the birds were "Headin’ for Shelt...

    Record Type: Object

    
13. Print - "Leaving Shelter"

    Framed artist's proof of the print "Leaving Shelter" by Les C. Kouba. In this third and final print in the Shelter Series Les Kouba decided to paint thirteen pheasants in the spring of the year. Kouba's detail and nostalgia include a seed bag hanging on the fence, an old Minnesota hay loader, a milk weed pod and a Schmidt beer can. A typical Midwest farmstead is in the background at the end of a muddy road. Signed at lower right corner. Wood fra...

    Record Type: Object

    
14. Print - Two Pheasants

    Art print on masonite of two pheasants flushed from a cornfield. Farms are in the background. An early painting by Minnesota wildlife artist Les Kouba in 1951. Litho in U.S.A. by Royal. Unframed. Donor Lucille Murray bought two old frames at a garage sale c.1978 (25 years ago) and found two Kouba prints used as backings: the two pheasants and a bass in lily pads (2003-0147-001).

    Record Type: Object

    
15. Print, Photographic - David Horejsi & Gerals Shalma, 1961

    Scanned color snapshot photograph of David Horejsi and Gerald Shamla of Silver Lake, MN. October 1961. David is holding a gun and both men have a pheasant.

    Record Type: Photo

    
16. Print, Photographic - John E. Horejsi & pheasant

    Scanned black & white snapshot photograph of John C. Horejsi at Jack's White Owl Inn, John C. Horejsi, Silver Lake, MN. He is wearing an apron and holding a dead pheasant. Processed Dec 1964.

    Record Type: Photo

    
17. Print, Photographic - Pheasant Hunters

    Black and white photograph of two men standing in a field, wearing overcoats and hats. The man on the left who might be Felton Vollmer is holding a pheasant up by the legs. The other man, unidentified, is holding a shotgun and looking at the bird. Penciled date on back: 9/24/16 (1916).

    Record Type: Photo

    
18. Print, Photographic - Pheasant Hunters

    Black and white photograph of two men standing in a field, wearing overcoats and hats. The man on the left who might be Felton Vollmer is holding a pheasant up by the legs. The other man, unidentified, is holding a shotgun and looking at the bird. Penciled date on back: 9/24/16 (1916). Identical to 2016-0032-488.

    Record Type: Photo