Davis, Julia, 1900-1993
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
James E. Davis, Artist, Papers and Artworks
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3157
Overview
Artwork, photography, and papers of James Edward Davis, an artist born in Clarksburg, West Virginia. Davis studied art at Princeton University and had a prolific and varied artistic career, being particularly noted for his experimental abstract films involving color, light, and movement. This collection contains paintings, sketches, mobiles, photographic prints, transparencies, memoirs, notes on Frank Lloyd Wright and John Marin, and other material. There are addenda to this collection,...
Dates:
1845-2013
John J. Davis (1824-1916) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1366
Overview
Papers of John J. Davis, a lawyer and politician from Clarksburg, West Virginia. This collection contains correspondence, account books, photographs, essays, speeches, and other material. Also included in this collection are writings of Davis' granddaughter, Julia McDonald Davis. There are also artifacts, including a school slate and three leather billfolds. Please see "Scope and Contents" for further detail.
Dates:
1824-1935
John W. Davis, Lawyer, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2963
Scope and Contents
Scrapbooks, diaries, correspondence and papers of the noted lawyer and 1924 presidential aspirant for the Democrats, John W. Davis, kept by his daughter, a famous author, Julia (McDonald) Davis Adams. Noteworthy is a 1948 official publication in tribute to Davis' career as Solicitor General of the United States (1913-1918). There is a typescript copy of his diary recounting his wartime and post-war tenure (1918-1921) as the U.S. ambassador to Great Britain. His letters include some of his...
Dates:
1842, 1861-1897, 1918-1927, 1946-1953, 1978
Julia M. Davis, Author, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2826
Overview
Interviews with and reviews of the fiction of Julia Davis, a member of a prominent Harrison County family whose most distinguished member was her father, John W. Davis, the 1924 Democratic Presidential candidate. In the interviews she tells of the influence upon her career of Melville Davisson Post and of the historic activities of her family, particularly before and during the Civil War. Her maternal grandparents, who resided in Jefferson County, observed the trial and execution of John...
Dates:
1980
Julia McDonald Davis (1900-1993) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1856
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, manuscripts, class notes and other papers of Julia McDonald Davis (1900-1993), an author and daughter of lawyer and statesman John W. Davis. Includes correspondence of Julia Davis; manuscripts of her work; her notes; correspondence of John W. Davis; and additional newspaper clippings, postcards, photographs, ephemera, and other material. Subjects of Julia Davis's correspondence and notes include a biographical sketch of E.H. McDonald, Miss Davis's grandfather; business...
Dates:
1866-1963
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- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 3
- Genealogy 2
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
- Slaves and slavery. 2
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Account books 1
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Art and artists 1
- Authors -- Letters and papers 1
- Bourbon politics. 1
- Churches -- Presbyterian 1
- Clarksburg and Philippi Turnpike. 1
- Confederate States of America - secession crisis. 1
- Crime and criminals. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Elections 1
- England 1
- Great Britain 1
- Jefferson County (W. Va.) 1
- Know-Nothingism. 1
- Lexington, V.A. 1
- Lincoln-Douglas debates 1
- Mississippi 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) -- History 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Presidential Elections, 1896-1908 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Secession 1
- Statehood politics -- West Virginia 1
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
- United Kingdom. 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Virginia Springs 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
- Women's history -- 1951-present 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1 + ∧ less
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