Bill Graham Papers, 1947-1966.
Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Graham, Bill, 1920-
- Abstract:
- 330 original editorial cartoons, correspondence and a published book.
- Extent:
- 2 linear ft.
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Bill Graham Papers,
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Bill Graham Papers are organized into two series. The first series, Cartoons consists of 330 original editorial cartoons published in the Arkansas Gazette (1954-1965). Five of the cartoons are undated. Of particular interest are Graham's cartoons during the "Little Rock Crisis", the period during which at the behest of Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus black students were barred from entering Little Rock Central High School during attempts to integrate it. Faubus’ (as well as other Southern states') defiance of federal court decisions and law and order was a running theme in Graham's cartoons during these years.
The cartoons from 1954 through the first two months of 1962 measure 11 1/4" x 14 1/4" and the last few years of cartoons measure 9 ½" x 11 ½". They were drawn on illustration board and paper with ink, crayon and graphite with notations appearing in blue pencil.
In addition, there several folders of incoming correspondence (1947-1966). The pieces of correspondence in the collection are photocopies and not originals. Included are letters from the Arkansas Gazette detailing the newspaper's decision to hire Graham as their editorial cartoonist, letters from fellow cartoonists and letters of appreciation from figures depicted in Graham's cartoons.
Also included is a published collection of editorials and cartoons (drawn by Graham) from the Arkansas Gazette titled Crisis in the South: the Little Rock Story (1959) which chronicles the newspaper's pieces about the desegregation of Little Rock's school system under the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.
- Biographical / historical:
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William “Bill” Karr Graham (1920-1994) was an American editorial cartoonist.
Bill Graham was born on December 14, 1920 in Coshocton, Ohio. Graham received a B.S. in social science from Centenary College in Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1942 where he contributed cartoons to the college yearbook. During World War II, Graham worked as an Army training artist and also created the comic strip Stinky while stationed at Fort Chaffee. Following the war, he was a reporter at the Coshocton Tribune and drew a Sunday panel, Smoke Signals from 1946 until 1948 when he was hired as the editorial cartoonist for the Arkansas Gazette.
Graham held membership in the National Cartoonists Society and the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists. One book of his cartoons was published in 1974, A little drum roll, please ... : The second term of Richard M. Nixon: a collection of cartoons. His work has been exhibited several times: as part of a NCS and U.S. Treasury Department traveling exhibition in 1950, in England in 1951 and with an AAEC traveling exhibit in 1960. His cartoons were also displayed at the Pavilion D’Humor in Montreal in 1971.
After retiring from the Arkansas Gazette in 1985, Bill Graham died September 9, 1994 of lung cancer.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Bill Graham , 1967.
- Arrangement:
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The cartoons and correspondence are arranged in chronological order with undated cartoons and undated correspondence at the end of their respective series.
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Art -- Cartoonists
American South -- Caricatures and cartoons.
American wit and humor, Pictorial.
Caricatures and cartoons -- United States.
Cartoonists -- United States.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Editorial cartoons -- Arkansas.
Editorial cartoons -- Little Rock (Ark.)
Editorial cartoons -- United States.
Political cartoons.
School integration -- Caricatures and cartoons.
World politics -- 1945-1989 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Cartoonists.
Cartoons (humorous images)
Correspondence.
Editorial cartoons. - Names:
- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Faubus, Orval Eugene, 1910-1994 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Graham, Bill, 1920-
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971 -- Caricatures and cartoons. - Places:
- United States -- Politics and government, 1945-1989 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
- Indexes:
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Index to cartoons
The following is a list of predominant people, places and subjects appearing in the editorial cartoons in this collection. The list is not exhaustive. Some subjects may require you to browse with alternative terms.
B= Box, F= Folder. For example: B1F1= Box 1 Folder 1.
Africa B3F9 Alabama B3F4-B3F5B3F10 Algeria B2F7B3F1B3F11 Ali, Muhammad B3F11 apartheid B2F8 Arkansas B1F2-B1F4B1F6-B2F3B3F2B3F5-B3F7B3F9-B3F11B3F14 Asia B1F2B3F9 bankruptcy B1F3 Barnett, Ross B3F2B3F4 Berlin B1F11-B2F2B2F10B3F4 Bill of Rights B3F1 Britain B1F1B1F8B2F3-B2F5B2F11B3F9 Buckley, William B3F14 Burch, Dean B3F9 Butler, Paul M. B2F3 California B2F10 Canada B3F6 Carpenter, Scott B3F1 Castro, Fidel B2F1B2F6B2F11-B3F1 censorship B2F3 Cherry, Francis B1F2 China B1F10B2F8B3F5B3F9-B3F10B3F13 Churchill, Winston B1F2B1F4B3F3 civil rights B1F7B3F4-B3F5B3F8-B3F9 colonialism B1F1B1F4B3F1B3F13 communism B1F2B1F4B1F11B2F2B2F7B2F10B3F4-B3F5B3F13 Congo B2F8B2F10 Congress B1F1-B1F2B2F4B2F6B2F8B2F10B3F1-B3F2B3F5-B3F6B3F9B3F12B3F15 Connor, Bull B3F4 Cosmonauts B3F4 cost of living B3F15 Cuba B2F1B2F5-B2F6B2F8-B2F9B2F11-B3F3 Cuban Missile Crisis B3F2 de Gaulle, Charles B2F3B2F9B3F2B3F13 Democratic National Convention B3F9 Democratic Party B1F1B1F10B2F3B2F5-B2F6B3F2B3F12 desegregation B1F3B1F7-B1F8 Dirksen, Everett B2F9B2F11B3F2B3F7-B3F8 disarmament B2F3B2F9B2F11 discrimination B3F4 Dixiecrats B1F7B3F15 Dominican Republic B3F11 Dulles, John Foster B1F3B1F10 Duvalier, François B3F4 economy B1F1B1F9B2F8B3F4B3F15 education B1F10-B2F3B2F10B3F2 Egypt B3F8B3F11 Eisenhower, Dwight B1F5B1F7B1F10B2F3B2F7B3F9B3F15 elections B1F7B1F9B2F1-B2F3B2F5-B2F7B2F11B3F4B3F7-B3F8 espionage B2F5B3F13 Europe B1F5B3F1B3F4 evolution B3F14 farming B1F3 Faubus, Orval B1F2B1F6-B1F10B2F2-B2F3B3F2B3F7B3F9 Federal Communications Commission B2F3B2F9 Fong, Hiram B3F8 foreign policy B1F2-B1F3B1F10B2F8B2F10B3F3B3F13 France B1F1B2F3B2F5B2F7B3F1-B3F2 Fulbright, J. William B3F10 gambling B3F4B3F7B3F9 Geneva Summit B1F2 Georgia B1F6 Germany B3F15 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von B3F5 Goldwater, Barry B3F5B3F8-B3F9 Guevara, Che B3F2 Haiti B3F4 Halleck, Charles B2F9B2F11B3F2B3F8 Hammarskjold, Dag B2F7-B2F8 Harriman, W. Averell B3F8 Hays, Brooks B1F4B1F11B2F3 highway construction B3F3B3F11 Hoffa, Jimmy B1F10 holidays B2F4B3F8B3F14 Hoover Commission B1F2 Humphrey, Hubert B2F5 Illinois B2F7 India B3F13 industry (general) B2F3B3F13 integration B1F2B1F6 Israel B1F5 John Birch Society B3F8B3F13 Johnson, Lyndon Baines B2F5-B2F6B3F6-B3F10B3F12B3F14 Judd, Walter B3F8 Kennedy, Caroline B2F7-B2F8 Kennedy, Jacqueline B2F7-B2F8B3F1 Kennedy, John F. B2F5-B2F9B3F1-B3F2B3F4B3F6 Kennedy, John F. (Jr.) B2F7-B2F8 Kennedy, Robert F. B3F9 Kerr, Robert B3F2 Khrushchev, Nikita B2F1B2F3B2F6-B3F2B3F4-B3F5B3F7-B3F8B3F14 Korean War B3F10B3F15 Kosygin, Alexey B3F13 Ku Klux Klan B3F9 Laos B2F8 Latin America B2F8-B2F9 law and order B1F4B1F6-B1F10 liberty B1F3B3F5 Lincoln, Abraham B2F7 Lindsay, John B3F14 Little Rock B1F3B1F5-B2F5B2F10 Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot B3F7-B3F8 lottery B3F4 Luce, Clare Booth B3F9 Lumumba, Patrice B2F6B2F8 Matthews, J.B. B1F11 McCarthy, Eugene B1F1 McNamara, Robert B2F8B2F11 Mediterranean B1F4 Middle East B1F4 military B1F1B1F3B1F8-B1F9B2F5B2F9B2F11 Mississippi B1F6B3F2B3F4B3F9B3F15 Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission B1F6 Morton, Thurston B. B2F6B3F13 motion pictures B3F3 Mudnt, Karl B3F13 Nasser, Gamal Abdel B2F10B3F11 NATO B2F3B3F13B3F15 natural resources B2F8 New Hampshire B3F4B3F7 New York B3F9 Nicklaus, Jack B3F10 Nixon, Richard M. B2F6-B2F7B2F10B3F3B3F7 nuclear weapons B1F2B1F5B2F3-B2F5B2F9B3F4-B3F5 oil B1F5 peace B1F3-B1F4B2F6B2F8-B2F10B3F5B3F14 politicians B2F3 politics B1F4 Pope John XXIII B3F4 poverty B3F12 progress B1F7 prosperity B2F5 Queen Elizabeth II B1F8 religion B1F8B2F6B3F1B3F4B3F8 Republican Nominating Convention B3F8 Republican Party B1F1B1F5B1F9-B1F10B2F6-B2F7B2F9B2F11B3F2B3F7-B3F9B3F12-B3F14 Rhodesia B3F13 Ridgway, Matthew B3F15 Rockefeller, Nelson B2F6B3F8B3F12 Romania B3F8 Romney, George W. B2F11B3F8 rural free delivery B1F4 Rusk, Dean B2F8B3F4 Russia B1F11B2F4-B2F5B2F7B3F1-B3F2B3F4-B3F5B3F8 schools B1F6-B2F5B2F10B3F5B3F14 Scranton, William B3F8 segregation B1F6 Shriver, Sargent B3F12 Smith, Margaret Chase B3F8 social security B2F8 South Africa B2F8 South America B1F3 Soviet Union B1F2B1F4B2F5-B2F9B3F4B3F10B3F13 space exploration B3F1B3F4B3F6B3F10-B3F13 sports B3F10-B3F11 Stalin, Joseph B2F10B3F15 Stevenson, Adlai E. B1F2B2F4B2F7B3F12 stock market B3F1 Suez Canal B1F4-B1F5 Sunday school bombings B3F5 Supreme Court B1F3B1F9B3F1B3F9 Symington, Stuart B2F5 Syria B2F10 taxes B1F2-B1F3B1F11B2F4B3F4B3F7B3F11B3F15 Taylor, Maxwell B2F5 teachers B2F1-B2F3B2F5 television B2F6-B2F9B3F3 Tennessee Valley Authority B1F2 Thant, U. B3F14 Thurmond, Strom B2F11 Tibet B3F10B3F13 U.S. Mail B1F4 Udall, Stewart B3F5 unions B1F10 United Arab Republic B2F10 United Nations B2F5-B2F10B3F4B3F14 University of Arkansas B2F1B2F4 urban renewal B2F4 Vietnam War B3F7B3F9-B3F12B3F14 violence B3F4 voting B1F9B3F6 voting rights B3F10 Walker, Edwin A. B2F10 Wallace, George B3F4-B3F5 war B1F5 weather B3F12 Wilson, Harold B3F9 women B3F1B3F4 Zanzibar B3F7 Zedong, Mao B2F6B3F2B3F7B3F13 Zorin, Valerian B2F8
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Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Bill Graham Papers,
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Special Collections Research CenterSyracuse University LibrariesBird Library, Room 600Syracuse, NY 13244, United States
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