Scope and arrangement
The Gherardi Davis papers are arranged in four series:
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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
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
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.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Gift, Davis, Chandler, 1941Key terms
Names
- Davis, Gherardi, 1858-1941
- Davis, Chandler
- Austria. Landwehr
- Germany. Heer
- Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Krasnai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡
- Université de Paris
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Location
Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328