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    <title>Jo Davidson papers, 1906-1952</title>
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    <namePart>Davidson, Jo</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1883-1952</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, speeches, writings, articles, notes, clippings, photographs, and other papers relating to Davidson's career as a portrait sculptor and to his activities as cochairman of the Progressive Citizens of America and chairman of the National Wallace for President Committee.  Includes individual files on many of Davidson's sculptures and a draft of Between Sittings; An Informal Autobiography (1951).  Family correspondents include his first wife, Yvonne Davidson; second wife, Florence Lucius Davidson; and his sons, Jean Davidson and Yvon Jacques Davidson.  Other correspondents include Helen Keller, Lincoln Steffens, Frank Swinnerton, and Henry A. Wallace.</abstract>
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  <note>Sculptor.  Full name: Joseph Davidson.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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      <namePart>Davidson, Yvonne</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">-1934</namePart>
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      <namePart>Davidson, Florence Lucius</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">-1962</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Davidson, Yvon Jacques</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1910-</namePart>
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      <namePart>Davidson, Jean</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1914-</namePart>
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      <namePart>Keller, Helen</namePart>
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      <namePart>Steffens, Lincoln</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1866-1936</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Swinnerton, Frank</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1884-1982</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1888-1965</namePart>
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      <namePart>Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1888-1965</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>National Wallace for President Committee.</namePart>
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    <topic>Progressivism (United States politics)</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Art</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Portrait sculpture</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Sculpture</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Presidents</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Election</topic>
    <temporal>1948</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
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    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1945-1953</temporal>
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