Overview of the Collection |
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| Creator: | Graham, Bill, 1920- |
| Title: | Bill Graham Papers. |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1947-1966. |
| Quantity: | 2 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | 330 original editorial cartoons, correspondence and a published book. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: | Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 http://scrc.syr.edu |
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.
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.
The cartoons and correspondence are arranged in chronological order with undated cartoons and undated correspondence at the end of their respective series.
There are no access restrictions on this material.
Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
One published book, Crisis in the South: the Little Rock story(1959) has been removed from this collection and sent to Rare Books.
Special Collections Research Center has collections of over one hundred cartoonists. Please refer to the SCRC Subject Index for a complete listing.
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Bill Graham Papers,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Library
Gift of Bill Graham, 1967.
Created by: –
Date: 1984
Revision history: 17 Nov 2008 - converted to EAD (MD);
29 Sep 2009 - added detailed inventory and index (SK);
8 Feb 2012 - box numbers revised (in accordance with index) (MD)
| Cartoons (330 items) | |||||||||||
| Click here for a list of specific dates. | |||||||||||
| See below for an index to the cartoons. | |||||||||||
| Oversize 1, Folder 1 | 1954 Oct - Nov | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1, Folder 2 | 1955 Jan - Jun | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1, Folder 3 | 1955 Jul - Nov | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1, Folder 4 | 1956 Jan - Feb, Apr - May, Jul - Sep | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1, Folder 5 | 1956 Oct - Nov | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1, Folder 6 | 1957 Feb, May, Jul | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1, Folder 7 | 1957 Sep | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1, Folder 8 | 1957 Oct- Nov | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1, Folder 9 | 1958 Jan - May | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1, Folder 10 | 1958 Jul - Oct | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1, Folder 11 | 1958 Nov - Dec | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2, Folder 1 | 1959 Jan - Mar | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2, Folder 2 | 1959 Apr - May | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2, Folder 3 | 1959 Jun - Sep | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2, Folder 4 | 1959 Nov - Dec | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2, Folder 5 | 1960 Jan - Feb, May | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2, Folder 6 | 1960 Jun - Sep | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2, Folder 7 | 1960 Oct - Dec | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2, Folder 8 | 1961 Jan - Mar | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2, Folder 9 | 1961 Apr - Aug | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2, Folder 10 | 1961 Sep - Dec | ||||||||||
| Oversize 2, Folder 11 | 1962 Jan - Feb | ||||||||||
| Box 3, Folder 1 | 1962 Mar - Jul | ||||||||||
| Box 3, Folder 2 | 1962 Aug - Dec | ||||||||||
| Box 3, Folder 3 | 1963 Mar - Apr | ||||||||||
| Box 3, Folder 4 | 1963 May - Jun | ||||||||||
| Box 3, Folder 5 | 1963 Jul - Oct | ||||||||||
| Box 3, Folder 6 | 1963 Nov - Dec | ||||||||||
| Box 3, Folder 7 | 1964 Jan - Apr | ||||||||||
| Box 3, Folder 8 | 1964 May - Jul | ||||||||||
| Box 3, Folder 9 | 1964 Aug - Dec | ||||||||||
| Box 3, Folder 10 | 1965 Jan - Apr | ||||||||||
| Box 3, Folder 11 | 1965 May - Jun | ||||||||||
| Box 3, Folder 12 | 1965 Jul | ||||||||||
| Box 3, Folder 13 | 1965 Aug - Oct | ||||||||||
| Box 3, Folder 14 | 1965 Nov - Dec | ||||||||||
| Box 3, Folder 15 | undated; circa 1950s | ||||||||||
| Correspondence | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | 1947-1955 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | 1958-1959 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | 1961-1963 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | 1965-1966 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | undated | ||||||||||
Index to cartoons |
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| 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-B3F5, B3F10 | |
| Algeria | B2F7, B3F1, B3F11 | |
| Ali, Muhammad | B3F11 | |
| Arkansas | B1F2-B1F4, B1F6-B2F3, B3F2, B3F5-B3F7, B3F9-B3F11, B3F14 | |
| Asia | B1F2, B3F9 | |
| Barnett, Ross | B3F2, B3F4 | |
| Berlin | B1F11-B2F2, B2F10, B3F4 | |
| Bill of Rights | B3F1 | |
| Britain | B1F1, B1F8, B2F3-B2F5, B2F11, B3F9 | |
| Buckley, William | B3F14 | |
| Burch, Dean | B3F9 | |
| Butler, Paul M. | B2F3 | |
| California | B2F10 | |
| Canada | B3F6 | |
| Carpenter, Scott | B3F1 | |
| Castro, Fidel | B2F1, B2F6, B2F11-B3F1 | |
| Cherry, Francis | B1F2 | |
| China | B1F10, B2F8, B3F5, B3F9-B3F10, B3F13 | |
| Churchill, Winston | B1F2, B1F4, B3F3 | |
| Congo | B2F8, B2F10 | |
| Congress | B1F1-B1F2, B2F4, B2F6, B2F8, B2F10, B3F1-B3F2, B3F5-B3F6, B3F9, B3F12, B3F15 | |
| Connor, Bull | B3F4 | |
| Cosmonauts | B3F4 | |
| Cuba | B2F1, B2F5-B2F6, B2F8-B2F9, B2F11-B3F3 | |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | B3F2 | |
| Democratic National Convention | B3F9 | |
| Democratic Party | B1F1, B1F10, B2F3, B2F5-B2F6, B3F2, B3F12 | |
| Dirksen, Everett | B2F9, B2F11, B3F2, B3F7-B3F8 | |
| Dixiecrats | B1F7, B3F15 | |
| Dominican Republic | B3F11 | |
| Dulles, John Foster | B1F3, B1F10 | |
| Duvalier, François | B3F4 | |
| Egypt | B3F8, B3F11 | |
| Eisenhower, Dwight | B1F5, B1F7, B1F10, B2F3, B2F7, B3F9, B3F15 | |
| Europe | B1F5, B3F1, B3F4 | |
| Faubus, Orval | B1F2, B1F6-B1F10, B2F2-B2F3, B3F2, B3F7, B3F9 | |
| Federal Communications Commission | B2F3, B2F9 | |
| Fong, Hiram | B3F8 | |
| France | B1F1, B2F3, B2F5, B2F7, B3F1-B3F2 | |
| Fulbright, J. William | B3F10 | |
| Geneva Summit | B1F2 | |
| Georgia | B1F6 | |
| Germany | B3F15 | |
| Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von | B3F5 | |
| Goldwater, Barry | B3F5, B3F8-B3F9 | |
| Guevara, Che | B3F2 | |
| Haiti | B3F4 | |
| Halleck, Charles | B2F9, B2F11, B3F2, B3F8 | |
| Hammarskjold, Dag | B2F7-B2F8 | |
| Harriman, W. Averell | B3F8 | |
| Hays, Brooks | B1F4, B1F11, B2F3 | |
| Hoffa, Jimmy | B1F10 | |
| Hoover Commission | B1F2 | |
| Humphrey, Hubert | B2F5 | |
| Illinois | B2F7 | |
| India | B3F13 | |
| Israel | B1F5 | |
| John Birch Society | B3F8, B3F13 | |
| Johnson, Lyndon Baines | B2F5-B2F6, B3F6-B3F10, B3F12, B3F14 | |
| Judd, Walter | B3F8 | |
| Kennedy, Caroline | B2F7-B2F8 | |
| Kennedy, Jacqueline | B2F7-B2F8, B3F1 | |
| Kennedy, John F. | B2F5-B2F9, B3F1-B3F2, B3F4, B3F6 | |
| Kennedy, John F. (Jr.) | B2F7-B2F8 | |
| Kennedy, Robert F. | B3F9 | |
| Kerr, Robert | B3F2 | |
| Khrushchev, Nikita | B2F1, B2F3, B2F6-B3F2, B3F4-B3F5, B3F7-B3F8, B3F14 | |
| Korean War | B3F10, B3F15 | |
| Kosygin, Alexey | B3F13 | |
| Ku Klux Klan | B3F9 | |
| Laos | B2F8 | |
| Latin America | B2F8-B2F9 | |
| Lincoln, Abraham | B2F7 | |
| Lindsay, John | B3F14 | |
| Little Rock | B1F3, B1F5-B2F5, B2F10 | |
| Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot | B3F7-B3F8 | |
| Luce, Clare Booth | B3F9 | |
| Lumumba, Patrice | B2F6, B2F8 | |
| Matthews, J.B. | B1F11 | |
| McCarthy, Eugene | B1F1 | |
| McNamara, Robert | B2F8, B2F11 | |
| Mediterranean | B1F4 | |
| Middle East | B1F4 | |
| Mississippi | B1F6, B3F2, B3F4, B3F9, B3F15 | |
| Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission | B1F6 | |
| Morton, Thurston B. | B2F6, B3F13 | |
| Mudnt, Karl | B3F13 | |
| NATO | B2F3, B3F13, B3F15 | |
| Nasser, Gamal Abdel | B2F10, B3F11 | |
| New Hampshire | B3F4, B3F7 | |
| New York | B3F9 | |
| Nicklaus, Jack | B3F10 | |
| Nixon, Richard M. | B2F6-B2F7, B2F10, B3F3, B3F7 | |
| Pope John XXIII | B3F4 | |
| Queen Elizabeth II | B1F8 | |
| Republican Nominating Convention | B3F8 | |
| Republican Party | B1F1, B1F5, B1F9-B1F10, B2F6-B2F7, B2F9, B2F11, B3F2, B3F7-B3F9, B3F12-B3F14 | |
| Rhodesia | B3F13 | |
| Ridgway, Matthew | B3F15 | |
| Rockefeller, Nelson | B2F6, B3F8, B3F12 | |
| Romania | B3F8 | |
| Romney, George W. | B2F11, B3F8 | |
| Rusk, Dean | B2F8, B3F4 | |
| Russia | B1F11, B2F4-B2F5, B2F7, B3F1-B3F2, B3F4-B3F5, B3F8 | |
| Scranton, William | B3F8 | |
| Shriver, Sargent | B3F12 | |
| Smith, Margaret Chase | B3F8 | |
| South Africa | B2F8 | |
| South America | B1F3 | |
| Soviet Union | B1F2, B1F4, B2F5-B2F9, B3F4, B3F10, B3F13 | |
| Stalin, Joseph | B2F10, B3F15 | |
| Stevenson, Adlai E. | B1F2, B2F4, B2F7, B3F12 | |
| Suez Canal | B1F4-B1F5 | |
| Sunday school bombings | B3F5 | |
| Supreme Court | B1F3, B1F9, B3F1, B3F9 | |
| Symington, Stuart | B2F5 | |
| Syria | B2F10 | |
| Taylor, Maxwell | B2F5 | |
| Tennessee Valley Authority | B1F2 | |
| Thant, U. | B3F14 | |
| Thurmond, Strom | B2F11 | |
| Tibet | B3F10, B3F13 | |
| U.S. Mail | B1F4 | |
| Udall, Stewart | B3F5 | |
| United Arab Republic | B2F10 | |
| United Nations | B2F5-B2F10, B3F4, B3F14 | |
| University of Arkansas | B2F1, B2F4 | |
| Vietnam War | B3F7, B3F9-B3F12, B3F14 | |
| Walker, Edwin A. | B2F10 | |
| Wallace, George | B3F4-B3F5 | |
| Wilson, Harold | B3F9 | |
| Zanzibar | B3F7 | |
| Zedong, Mao | B2F6, B3F2, B3F7, B3F13 | |
| Zorin, Valerian | B2F8 | |
| apartheid | B2F8 | |
| bankruptcy | B1F3 | |
| censorship | B2F3 | |
| civil rights | B1F7, B3F4-B3F5, B3F8-B3F9 | |
| colonialism | B1F1, B1F4, B3F1, B3F13 | |
| communism | B1F2, B1F4, B1F11, B2F2, B2F7, B2F10, B3F4-B3F5, B3F13 | |
| cost of living | B3F15 | |
| de Gaulle, Charles | B2F3, B2F9, B3F2, B3F13 | |
| desegregation | B1F3, B1F7-B1F8 | |
| disarmament | B2F3, B2F9, B2F11 | |
| discrimination | B3F4 | |
| economy | B1F1, B1F9, B2F8, B3F4, B3F15 | |
| education | B1F10-B2F3, B2F10, B3F2 | |
| elections | B1F7, B1F9, B2F1-B2F3, B2F5-B2F7, B2F11, B3F4, B3F7-B3F8 | |
| espionage | B2F5, B3F13 | |
| evolution | B3F14 | |
| farming | B1F3 | |
| foreign policy | B1F2-B1F3, B1F10, B2F8, B2F10, B3F3, B3F13 | |
| gambling | B3F4, B3F7, B3F9 | |
| highway construction | B3F3, B3F11 | |
| holidays | B2F4, B3F8, B3F14 | |
| industry (general) | B2F3, B3F13 | |
| integration | B1F2, B1F6 | |
| law and order | B1F4, B1F6-B1F10 | |
| liberty | B1F3, B3F5 | |
| lottery | B3F4 | |
| military | B1F1, B1F3, B1F8-B1F9, B2F5, B2F9, B2F11 | |
| motion pictures | B3F3 | |
| natural resources | B2F8 | |
| nuclear weapons | B1F2, B1F5, B2F3-B2F5, B2F9, B3F4-B3F5 | |
| oil | B1F5 | |
| peace | B1F3-B1F4, B2F6, B2F8-B2F10, B3F5, B3F14 | |
| politicians | B2F3 | |
| politics | B1F4 | |
| poverty | B3F12 | |
| progress | B1F7 | |
| prosperity | B2F5 | |
| religion | B1F8, B2F6, B3F1, B3F4, B3F8 | |
| rural free delivery | B1F4 | |
| schools | B1F6-B2F5, B2F10, B3F5, B3F14 | |
| segregation | B1F6 | |
| social security | B2F8 | |
| space exploration | B3F1, B3F4, B3F6, B3F10-B3F13 | |
| sports | B3F10-B3F11 | |
| stock market | B3F1 | |
| taxes | B1F2-B1F3, B1F11, B2F4, B3F4, B3F7, B3F11, B3F15 | |
| teachers | B2F1-B2F3, B2F5 | |
| television | B2F6-B2F9, B3F3 | |
| unions | B1F10 | |
| urban renewal | B2F4 | |
| violence | B3F4 | |
| voting | B1F9, B3F6 | |
| voting rights | B3F10 | |
| war | B1F5 | |
| weather | B3F12 | |
| women | B3F1, B3F4 | |
