Scope and Contents This collection includes materials documenting the life and career of Philip Grant Davidson, Jr. as well as the entire Davidson extended family. There are journals, correspondence and writings by Davidson, his parents, his sister, his wife and some of her family members, their children, and various other relations. They are divided into 6 series. Philip Grant Davidson served as the twelfth president of University of Louisville from 1951 to 1968. These papers include correspondence from...

Content Description Framed, painted portraits of the first presidents of the University of Louisville and its predecessor institutions. Portraits include Jefferson Seminary's Mann Butler (1813-1816); Louisville Collegiate Institute's Rev. Benjamin F. Farnsworth (1838-1840) and John Hopkins Harney (1840-1844); Louisville Medical Institute's John Rowan (1837-1842); and University of Louisville's Samuel Smith Nicholas (1846-1847), James Guthrie (1847-1869), Isaac Caldwell (1869-1886), James Speed Pirtle...