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

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

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the Clifton Waller Barrett Library
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Accession Number 6109-w


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Repository
Special Collections, University of Virginia Library
Accession number
6109-w
Title
Richard Harding Davis Collection 1869-[1893]
Physical Characteristics
This holding consists of 9 items.
Language
English

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Preferred Citation

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

Contents List

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.