Williams, Gaar, 1880-1935
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Charles H. Kuhn collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0792
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a color landscape drawing by Herman Davis (undated); a drawing of a small street scene by Gaar Williams the appeared in the Chicago Daily News (ca. 1908); a drawing of WWI "doughboy" by Gaar Williams (1918); and a photograph of Gaar Williams (undated). The collection also includes twenty lessons created by Charles Kuhn for an Indianapolis News cartoon course (1934).There are also...
Dates:
circa 1908-1934, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Charles H. Kuhn collection
Gaar Williams collection
Collection
Identifier: L178
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 12 paperback portfolios each containing 25 Gaar Williams cartoons reprinted from the Chicago Tribune, with a foreward written by cartoonist, John T. McCutcheon. According to an ad in the Tribune's December 17, 1940 edition, the portfolios where printed as a special Christmas box set. Also included are 321 clippings of Williams' cartoons (circa 1927-1935) that were reprinted and published in the ...
Dates:
1939-1951
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Gaar Williams collection
Indiana Taxpayers Association cartoons
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: OB060
Scope and Contents
This collection contains cartoons created by Gaar Williams and Charles Kuhn between 1923 and 1937 for the Indiana Taxpayers Association related to budgets and taxes.
Dates:
1923-1937
Judith R. Long correspondence
Collection — Folder: S2965
Identifier: S2965
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence concerning the collecting of Kin Hubbard and Abe Martin materials from 1941 to 1987 and the compilation of a checklist of his writings. Correspondents include Blanche Stillson and Dorothy Russo.
Dates:
1941-1987
William Herschell collection
Collection — Folder: OB051
Identifier: OB051
Scope and Contents
This collection includes 3 printed items with content created by William M. Herschell in the United States ranging from 1903 to 1940. The first item is a poem, "An Humble Grace" by Herschell, printed with a drawing of an African American man standing at a dinner table with a woman and 3 children, dated Thanksgiving 1903 by Franklin Booth. The second item is the cover page of sheet music (pasted to a board) for the song, "Long Boy" with words by Herschell, music by Barclay Walker, and...
Dates:
1903-1940
