A Guide to the Richard Harding Davis Collection 1869-[1893]
A Collection in
the Clifton Waller Barrett Library
The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 6109-w
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Richard Harding Davis Collection, Accession # 6109-w, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Contents List
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.