Davis, Gherardi, 1858-1941.
Gherardi Davis papers, 1828-1940.
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.
Gherardi Davis (1858-1941), an American lawyer, author and state legislator, was the third Deputy Police Commissioner of New York City.
Davis, Gherardi, 1858-1941.
Austria. Landwehr -- Flags.
Germany. Heer -- Flags.
Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestianskaia Krasnaia Armiia -- Flags.
Universit ̌de Paris -- Students.
Bible -- Study and teaching.
Physics -- Study and teaching.
Standards, Military.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives.
Diaries lcgft
Photographs. aat
Davis, Chandler.
AIP-ICOS
New York Public Library. Rare Books and Manuscripts Division. Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018, USA.