- unitid
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{"value"=>"MssCol 736", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"736", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Gherardi Davis papers"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1828-1940", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1828/1940"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"3 linear feet (8 boxes)"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- date_inclusive_start
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1828
- date_inclusive_end
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1940
- origination
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{"value"=>"Davis, Gherardi, 1858-1941", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Gherardi Davis (1858-1941), an American lawyer, author and state legislator, was the third Deputy Police Commissioner of New York City.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>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.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Gherardi Davis papers are arranged in four series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/736#c1106697'>I. Papers</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/736#c1106703'>II. Regimental Colors in the War of the Revolution</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/736#c1106707'>III. Regimental Colors of the German Armies in the War of 1870-1871</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/736#c1106713'>IV. Flag correspondence, other countries</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- acqinfo
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{"accession_number"=>"MSS 88M80"}
{"date"=>"1941", "source"=>"Davis, Chandler", "method"=>"Gift", "value"=>"Gift, Davis, Chandler, 1941"}
- keydate
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1828
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Gherardi Davis papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library"}
- extent_statement
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3 linear feet (8 boxes)
- abstract
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{"value"=>"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.", "generated"=>true}
- date_start
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1828
- date_end
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1940