About the Project
"No Laughing Matter: Political Cartoons and the Arkansas Historical Perspective" began as a product of an unrelated project when the UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC) proposed a workshop for teachers, librarians, and archivists around the state. The workshop, Teaching a Web of Arkansas History, brought together professionals from around the state to learn about digitizing photographs, writing about the photographs, and creating online exhibits to highlight archival material. For the workshops, Center staff thought political cartoons would be interesting source materials for the participants to work with and contemplate exhibiting.
Bill Graham Cartoon Collection
The Bill Graham Cartoon Collection (UALR.MS.0022) contains the original art, clippings, rough drawings, bylines, and other materials of William Karr “Bill” Graham, editorial cartoonist for the Arkansas Gazette (1948-1985).
View the finding aid online.
Jon Kennedy Cartoon Collection
The Jon Kennedy Cartoon Collection (UALR.MS.0023) primarily contains the editorial cartoons of Jon Kennedy, editorial cartoonist for the Arkansas Democrat (1941-1988). The collection contains cartoon art from the 1960's through the 1980's, though not every year is complete. There are photocopies of editorial clippings from 1959 to 1974.
Correspondence, newspaper clippings and articles, photographs, and other materials are also part of the collection.
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Through the Arkansas Studies portal, you can search all holdings available in the library, regardless of whether they are maintained by the UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture or the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies.
Visit the portal at arstudies.com.
The Bobby L. Roberts Library combines the archival holdings of two institutions, UA Little Rock and the Central Arkansas Library System’s Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, under one roof.
To help make the researcher’s experience efficient and fulfilling, the two institutions have created a single research portal that provides all of the information you need to plan your visit to the archive, including the ability to submit questions and requests to the CAHC staff.
Visit the portal at arstudies.com.