Cabat-Gill Advertising Agency (Tucson, Ariz.)

Biographical note: Advertising Agency owned and operated by Ernest Cabat and Norval Gill. Both worked during World War II for the Consolidated-Vultee facility in Tucson as production illustrators and opened their private company in 1945. The company business centered around providing newspaper and magazine advertising, and printed materials such as letterhead stationary and brochures for local merchants. Ernest Cabat came to Tucson in 1942 and had previously worked as the art director for a division of Time and Life magazines. Norval Gill attended school in California but moved to Tucson to teach in the art department of Tucson Senior High School.