College of William and Mary records for Jackson Davis, 1897-1947.

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College of William and Mary records for Jackson Davis, 1897-1947.

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Records of Davis in the College of William and Mary archives include photographs of the first year class, 1899; the junior class, 1901; Mu Pi Lambda fraternity; the football team; the tennis club; the Phoenix Literary Society; and College instructors; as well as a later photograph of Davis at his desk. With these are copies of a page from the Matriculation Book containing his signature; the college catalog for 1896/1897; a list of honors and degrees awarded, 1901; programme of Final Exercises, 1902; selected pages from the yearbook Colonial Echo, 1899, 1901; Board of Visitors minutes mentioning Davis, 1915-1920; letters to J.A. Twyman, 1909-1914; an article by Davis "Observations and impressions of South America," with a particular emphasis on education,1942; letters, 1943, Davis to Mrs. Lyon G. Tyler re Hampton Institute; and two obituaries, 1947.

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