Harold Roland Davis Papers
An inventory of his papers at the Syracuse University Archives
Finding aid created by: Edward L. Galvin
Date: 2011
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Finding aid created by: Edward L. Galvin
Date: 2011
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| Creator: | Davis, Harold Roland |
| Title: | Harold Roland Davis Papers |
| Dates: | 1917-1965 |
| Size: | 3 oversize boxes (6 linear feet) |
| Abstract: | The Harold Roland Davis Papers includes over 150 of his black and white photographs as well as photograph albums and certificates of membership and merit . |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
University Archives, Special Collections Research Center Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Ave., Suite 600 Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 |
Harold Roland Davis was born in Townsend, New York, May 9, 1893, the son of Daniel W. and Sarah Coates Davis. After graduating from Perry High School (Perry, New York) in 1912, he went to work at Curtiss Wright Air Craft in Hammondsport, New York.
In 1914 Davis entered Syracuse University to study engineering. While at Syracuse he was voted into the Alpha Chi Chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. He left the University in 1918 to serve in the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I. He attained the rank of First Lieutenant in the 56th Engineers.
Davis worked as a machine designer and checker at Eastman Kodak Company for ten years. In 1940 he started at Bendix-Eclipse as a designer and then retired in 1958 as manager of the Engineering Records Department. He moved to Ocala, Florida, in 1965 and died in February 1973.
Davis was a member of the Photographic Society of America, the Golden Chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity, the Elmira Camera Club, and the Photo Clubs Society of Southern New York, of which he was chairman in 1958. He also served as a judge for the Syracuse Camera Club, Finger Lakes International Salon, Owego Camera Club, IBM Photo Forum, and the Endicott Camera Club. Among the many awards he received were the Newspaper National Snapshot Award (1949 and 1955) and the Photographic Society Award of Merit.
The Harold Roland Davis Papers are arranged into four series: Mounted Photographs, Unmounted Photographs, Photograph Albums, and Certificates. Comprising over 150 black and white photographs taken by Davis, the first two series make up most of the papers. Among his award-winning photographs are two prints of "Sun Magic," four prints of "Sprays of Light," and one print each of "Piercing the Mist," "Luminosity," and "Skylights." The Mounted Photographs are prints on 16"x20" mounts. The Unmounted Photographs are 11”x14”, 8”x10” and smaller prints. The Photograph Albums series consists of two albums. One is filled with prints from Davis' time at Syracuse University, including shots of campus buildings, the Pi Kappa Alpha house, and Davis and his friends. The second album contains prints of Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia scenes (ca. 1910s). Certificates of membership in Pi Kappa Alpha and the Photographic Society of America as well as Newspaper National Snapshot Awards are found in the Certificates series.
Access Restrictions:
Please note that the collection is housed off-site, and advance notice is required to allow time to have the materials brought to the Reading Room on campus.
Use Restrictions:
Written permission must be obtained from University Archives,
Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University Libraries and all relevant rights holders
before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this
collection.
Names
Davis, Harold Roland.
Syracuse University -- Students.
Subjects
Photography.
Syracuse (N.Y.) -- History.
Types of Material
Black-and-white photographs.
Certificates.
Photograph albums.
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Harold Roland Davis Papers,
University Archives,
Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
M. Margaret Davis Little gave the Davis Papers to the Syracuse University Archives in 1978.
Processing Information
The Davis Papers are processed.
Mounted Photographs
Unmounted Photographs
Photograph Albums
Certificates
| Mounted Photographs | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Arches and Spires (2 prints) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The Artist Exhibits 1955 (2 prints) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The Barn in the Clearing | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Bear Creek Road | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Buds Bloom and Blown | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Busy Harbor | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | City Abstract | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Clawing Crabs | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Clearing Skies | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Columns of Light | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Crosslight | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Demands Right of Way | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Dim Past | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Door to Yesteryear (3 prints) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Enshrined | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Evening Reverie | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Feeble Contradiction | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Forsythia (3 prints) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Garden Tete A Tete | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Grace (2 prints) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Half Hidden Harbor | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Into the Stretch | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Kashmir False Spirea | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Lakeside (2 prints) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Luminosity | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Marks of Time | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Mill Phantom (4 prints) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Moderne | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The Moored Three | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The Neglected Fish Shack | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Our Lady of Good Voyage 1954 (3 prints) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Over the Hilltop | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Piercing the Mist (3 prints) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Piled Spirals (2 prints) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Plumage (3 prints) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Portland Head | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Push | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Pyramid Building | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Rendezvous | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Ripples and Reflections | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Rock and Reaction 1953 (3 prints) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Rockport, Massachusetts | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Roof Geometrics | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Sand Ripples | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Seemingly Calm and Peaceful (2 prints) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Sermon in Stones | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Skyhooks | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Skylights (3 prints) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Sidewalk Studio 1953 (5 prints) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Sky's Ablaze | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Slush | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Sparkling Water | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Spider of Industry | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Sprays of Light (4 prints) | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Staghorn Sumac | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Stairway to Heaven | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Steps to Where? (2 prints) | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Sun Magic (2 prints) | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Sunlight and Shadows (3 prints) | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Tidal Basin Vista | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Tracks and Traces (4 prints) | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Trees (2 prints) | ||||||||||
| Untitled | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | [Lincoln Memorial] | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | [Roof vents] | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | [Snowscape] | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Vents (2 prints) | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Winter-Bound Brook | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Wooden Snow | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Work 'a-Day World (4 prints) | ||||||||||
| Unmounted Photographs | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | Baltimore, Maryland - Steps (3 prints) | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Baltimore, Maryland - Steps with figure | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Chemung River, Waverly, New York | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Chateau Frontenac, Quebec | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, D.C. | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Elmira, New York - Landscape with house (2 prints) | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Elmira, New York - Landscape with river | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Elmira, New York - Landscape with tree (2 prints) | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Elmira, New York - Winterscape | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Evening Reverie | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Flying Hooves, Into the Stretch | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Grand Canyon - View down the Yellowstone Canyon below the lower falls | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Hammondsport, New York - Vents (2 prints) | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Hammondsport, New York - Wine cellar roofline (2 prints) | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Hammondsport, New York - Wine cellar street | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Heaven-ward (Brimfield Massachusetts Congregational Church) | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C. | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. (2 prints) | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Maine Shore Line | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Noon Day Lite going from San Francisco to Los Angeles | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Pemequid Light, Maine | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Rockport, Massachusetts | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Sidewalk Studio | ||||||||||
| Untitled Prints | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | [Apple blossoms] | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | [Apple blossoms] | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | [Still life] | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | [Still life] | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | [Still life with forsythia] (2 prints) | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | [Tug boat on river] | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | [Workers] | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Zion National Park, Utah - The Alter of Sacrifice | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Zion National Park, Utah - The "Three Marys" and "West Temple" | ||||||||||
| Photograph Albums | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | College years, including Syracuse University ca. 1914-1918 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ca. 1910s | ||||||||||
| Certificates | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | Certificate of Membership in the Photographic Society of America | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Certificate of Membership in the Alpha-Chi Chapter of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity January 19, 1917 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Certificate of Membership in the Golden Chapter of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity March 1, 1965 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Certificate of Merit, 1949 Newspaper National Snapshot Awards | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Certificate of Merit, 1955 Newspaper National Snapshot Awards | ||||||||||