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Creator
Davis, Gherardi, 1858-1941
Call number
MssCol 736
Physical description
3 linear feet (8 boxes)
Preferred Citation
Gherardi Davis papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
Repository
Manuscripts and Archives Division
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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.

Scope and arrangement

Administrative information

Source of acquisition

Gift, Davis, Chandler, 1941

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Location

Manuscripts and Archives Division
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328

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