Bill Davis with his younger sister, Nancy Paige Davis, 1990

Item Information

• Description
  Caption by photographer (Andrews): "Bill was much older than Nancy. When she turned 18, she wanted to attend the nursing school at the University of Virginia, but their father refused to pay for her to go. Bill eventually saved enough money to send her and she graduated in 1941. She never returned to the farm except to visit and lived in Richmond until her death in 2005. This image was made during her last visit to see Bill. She always referred to him as her "angel" and thus she was making a halo for him."

• Item ID
  japph030040010
• Source Collection
  Jesse Andrews photographs, Rubenstein Library, Duke University
• Print Number
  JA_POR_43-16A
• Spatial Coverage
  Virginia
• Title
  Bill Davis with his younger sister, Nancy Paige Davis, 1990
• Series
  Davis Family Photographs
• Provenance
  The Jesse Andrews photographs were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a purchase in 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2011.
• Creator
  Andrews, Jesse
• Extent
  11 x 14 in.
• Date
  1990
• Box Number
  Box 3
• Type
  Image
  Still Image
  photographs
  black-and-white photographs
  documentary photographs
  portraits
  group portraits
• Subject
  Rural families

• Copyright & Usage
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