"Why, it's Gallegher!" — Frontispiece to *Gallagher and Other Stories*

Gibson's frontispiece for Richard Harding Davis's debut story collection shows three figures in sharp pen-and-ink: a tall man in a top hat and long coat grips a cane and reaches toward a scrappy street boy, whose arms are outstretched between the two adults — the second a bearded gentleman in a business suit. The caption, spoken by the night editor, frames the boy Gallegher as a recognizable street urchin, simultaneously triumphant and bedraggled. Gibson renders the child with the loose clothes and open-mouthed energy of working-class newspaper boys Davis depicted — Philadelphia's Irish immigrant youth. The composition captures the interaction between characters across class lines in a newspaper setting.