Scope and arrangement
The Gherardi Davis papers are arranged in four series:
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Gherardi Davis (1858-1941), an American lawyer, author and state legislator, was the third Deputy Police Commissioner of New York City. Collection consists of correspondence, diaries, autobiography, notes, illustrations, essays on the Bible, and other papers of Davis. Includes research materials relating to the flags of the armies of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, and other countries; notebooks on physics Davis kept when he was a student at the Sorbonne, ca. 1878; family papers; typescripts of autobiographical essays; World War I journal of his brother, Captain Chandler Davis; and printed matter.
The Gherardi Davis papers are arranged in four series: