A Guide to the Richard Harding Davis Collection , 1869-[1893] #6109-w

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Richard Harding Davis Collection, Accession # 6109-w, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Portraits of Richard Harding Davis

9 portrait illustrations, clipped from an article in an unidentified magazine.

Box 16
"Age 5" July, 1869
Box 16
"Age 9" 1873
Box 16
"Age 18" 1888

With his brother Charles Belmont Davis, the present Consul to Florence, Italy. Photograph taken at Lehigh University.
"Age 22" 1886
Box 16
Richard Harding Davis in disguise n.d.

In this photograph, Davis is "in the disguise of a burglar, under which, as a reporter for the Press , he lived among the thieves of Philadelphia."
Box 16
"Age 24" 1888

"A reporter on the New York Evening Sun . From a photograph by William M. Ruschhaupt, New York."
Box 16
"Age 26" 1890

"Gathering material for The West from a Car Window ."
Box 16
"At the present time, age 29" [1893]

"From a photograph by Pach."
Box 16
"Age 29" [1893]

Not identical to the preceding image, but apparently taken at the same sitting.

A Guide to the Richard Harding Davis Collection 1869-[1893]