Bill Gallo Cartoon Collection

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Bill Gallo Cartoon Collection

1958-2011

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The Bill Gallo Cartoon Collection contains approximately 654 cartoons, watercolors, drawings, and illustrations by New York Daily News sports cartoonist Bill Gallo. Included works span the length of his professional career with subject matter commenting on contemporary current events.

5.0 Linear feet

eng, Latn

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National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

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Gallo, Bill, 1922-2011

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Bill Gallo (1922-2011) was an award-winning American sports cartoonist. Born December 28, 1922 in New York City and raised in Astoria, Queens, William "Bill" Gallo grew up wanting to work for a newspaper. His father, an immigrant from the Basque region of Spain, worked at the the Spanish-language paper La Prensa. Gallo acquired his art education through Columbia University and what is now the School of Visual Arts through the GI Bill. In 1941, he joined th...