P. O. Davis Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence, financial records, photographs, published articles, speeches, autobiographical manuscripts, and printed material relating to agriculture. Papers are primarily personal in nature; material relating to Davis's tenure as Director of the Extension Service is limited. Includes scattered material relating to Davis' work with Southern Railway and his connection with the periodical Progressive Farmer. Also includes limited material on relations between the Extension Service and the Alabama Farm Bureau Federation in the late 1930s.
Dates
- 1913 - 1971
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Biographical / Historical
Posey Oliver Davis was a director of Alabama Cooperative Extension Service (1937-1959), Auburn University, Alabama. Prior to his tenure as the Extension Service Director, Davis was a horticulturalist with the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station (1916-1917), an agriculturalist with Southern Railway (1917-1918), worked with boys's 4-H Clubs (1918-1920), worked with the periodical Progressive Farmer (1920), and served as director of publicity at Auburn University.
Extent
3.5 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
This finding aid is organized by accessions. Each accession represents an addition to the collection. Each accession also represents a transfer of physical and legal custody of archival materials from the originating department to Auburn University Special Collections and Archives.
Separated Materials
Wright, Eleanor Lee, When you Entertain. Chicago: Wilson and Company, 1932. Copy located on the fourth floor of Ralph Brown Draughon Library TX 731 .W73
Hill, Henry Chase, The New Wonder Book of Knowledge. Philadeliphia: John C. Winston, 1929.
Taber, Clarence Wilbur, Digest of Medical Terms. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis, 1937. (Taber's Medical Dictionary). Copy located on the fourth floor of Ralph Brown Draughon Library R 121 .T14
Orpen, William, Sir, The Outline of Art Volume I and II. New York: W. H. Wise, 1934 Copy located on the third floor of Ralph Brown Draughon Library N 5300 .O7 1934
Auburn Chamber of Commerce Annual Report 1994
Six photographs of P. O. Davis relocated to IV B 3561
Processing Information
Accession 9-12-1978 was processed by R. J. Jakeman September 24, 1981.
Accession 89-54 was processed by Cindy Register July 12, 1989.
Accession 94-158 was processed by Paul Martin February 22, 1995.
Accession 95-57 was proccesed by Paul Martin May 26, 1995.
Finding aid entered into ArchivesSpace by Tori Buchanan 2022.
- Title
- Guide to the P. O. Davis Collection
- Subtitle
- Record Group 461
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Auburn University Special Collections and Archives Repository
Auburn University
Ralph Brown Draughon Library
231 Mell Street
Auburn Alabama 36849
334-844-1732
archives@auburn.edu
