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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Ben B. Lindsey papers, 1838-1957 (bulk 1890-1943)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Lindsey, Ben B. (Ben Barr)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1869-1943</namePart>
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    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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    <extent>95,000</extent>
    <extent>320 35</extent>
    <extent>142</extent>
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  <abstract>Correspondence; manuscripts of articles, books, speeches, plays, and broadcast scripts; notebooks; daybooks; journals; yearbooks; appointment books; stenographic notes; case files; financial and legal records; legislative files; official and personal files; Lindsey (Lindsay) family papers; memorabilia; newspaper clippings; scrapbooks; broadsides; photographs; and other papers primarily concerning Lindsey's role in the development of the juvenile court systems in Colorado and California, his tenure as judge in both states, and his political and literary activities.  Subjects include child welfare, child labor laws, penal reform, women's suffrage, birth control, marriage and divorce, sex education and hygiene, and the Women's Protective League.  Documents Lindsey's disbarment in Colorado, the Colorado mine strike incident, and the investigations of the Whittier State School of California in 1940-1942.</abstract>
  <abstract>Correspondents include Jane Addams, Joseph P. Annin, Newton Diehl Baker, Roger N. Baldwin, Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, Edward William Bok, Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Henry Augustus Buchtel, Luther Burbank, Carrie Chapman Catt, James H. Causey, John Cavanaugh, Edward Prentiss Costigan, George Creel, Clarence Darrow, Stephen T. Early, Thomas A. Edison, Havelock Ellis, Robert Erskine Ely, Wainwright Evans, Harriet Ford, Henry Ford, Louis M. Howe, Charles Evans Hughes, Harold L. Ickes, Hiram Johnson, Tom Loftin Johnson, John Harvey Kellogg, Robert M. La Follette, Jesse L. Lasky, Walter Lippmann, Julian W. Mack, W.G. McAdoo, S.S. McClure, Jesse F. McDonald, H.H. McIntyre, Justin Miller, Henry Morgenthau, Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins, Culbert Levy Olson, Thomas McDonald Patterson, Drew Pearson, George W. Perkins, James H. Pershing, Amos Pinchot, Gifford Pinchot, Donald R. Richberg, Jacob A. Riis, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Sol A. Rosenblatt, Bertrand Russell, Margaret Sanger, Hannah Kent Schoff, John F. Shafroth, Morrison Shafroth, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, Lyman Beecher Stowe, William H. Taft, R.D. Thompson, Earl Warren, James E. West, William Allen White, Brand Whitlock, Woodrow Wilson, and Stephen S. Wise.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Judge and social reformer.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note>Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Addams, Jane</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1860-1935</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Annin, Joseph P</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Baker, Newton Diehl</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1871-1937</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1884-1981</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1862-1927</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bok, Edward William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1863-1930</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Brandeis, Louis Dembitz</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1856-1941</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Buchtel, Henry Augustus</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1847-1924</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Burbank, Luther</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1849-1926</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Catt, Carrie Chapman</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1859-1947</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Causey, James H</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cavanaugh, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1870-1935</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Costigan, Edward Prentiss</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1874-1939</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Creel, George</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1876-1953</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Darrow, Clarence</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1857-1938</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Early, Stephen T. (Stephen Tyree)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1889-1951</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1847-1931</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ellis, Havelock</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1859-1939</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ely, Robert Erskine</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1861-</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Evans, Wainwright</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ford, Harriet</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1868-1949</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ford, Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1863-1947</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Howe, Louis M. (Louis McHenry)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1871-1936</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hughes, Charles Evans</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1862-1948</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1874-1952</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Johnson, Hiram</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1866-1945</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Johnson, Tom Loftin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1854-1911</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Kellogg, John Harvey</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1852-1943</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1855-1925</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lasky, Jesse L</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1880-1958</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lippmann, Walter</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1889-1974</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Mack, Julian W. (Julian William)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1866-1943</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McAdoo, W. G. (William Gibbs)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1863-1941</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McClure, S. S. (Samuel Sidney)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1857-1949</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McDonald, Jesse F</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1858-1942</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McIntyre, H. H</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Miller, Justin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1888-1973</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Morgenthau, Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1856-1946</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>O'Higgins, Harvey Jerrold</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1876-1929</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Olson, Culbert Levy</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1876-</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Patterson, Thomas MacDonald</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1839-1916</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Pearson, Drew</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1897-1969</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Perkins, George W. (George Walbridge)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1862-1920</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Pershing, James H. (James Hammond)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1863-1948</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Pinchot, Amos</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1873-1944</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Pinchot, Gifford</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1865-1946</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Richberg, Donald R. (Donald Randall)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1881-1960</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1849-1914</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Roosevelt, Eleanor</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1884-1962</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1882-1945</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Roosevelt, Theodore</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1858-1919</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Rosenblatt, Sol A</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1900-</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Russell, Bertrand</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1872-1970</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sanger, Margaret</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1879-1966</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Schoff, Hannah Kent</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1853-1940</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Shafroth, John F. (John Franklin)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1854-1922</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Shafroth, Morrison</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1888-1978</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sinclair, Upton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1878-1968</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Steffens, Lincoln</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1866-1936</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stowe, Lyman Beecher</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1880-1963</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Taft, William H. (William Howard)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1857-1930</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Thompson, R. D</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Warren, Earl</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1891-1974</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>West, James E. (James Edward)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1876-1948</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>White, William Allen</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1868-1944</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Whitlock, Brand</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1869-1934</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wilson, Woodrow</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1856-1924</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1874-1949</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lindsay family</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Whittier State School (Whittier, Calif.)</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Women's Protective League.</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Birth control</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Child labor</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Child welfare</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Coal Miners' Strike, Colorado, 1913-1914</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Divorce</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Sexual health</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Juvenile courts</topic>
    <geographic>California</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Juvenile courts</topic>
    <geographic>Colorado</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Lawyers</topic>
    <topic>Disbarment, disqualification, etc</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Marriage</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Prisoners</topic>
    <topic>Legal status, laws, etc</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Schools</topic>
    <geographic>California</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Sex instruction</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Strikes and lockouts</topic>
    <geographic>Colorado</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Women</topic>
    <topic>Suffrage</topic>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Jurists</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Reformers</occupation>
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