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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Theodore Earl Davis, Jr., Collection on Jazz Music #20492, Southern Folklife Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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This summary description was created in April 2018 to provide information about unprocessed materials in Wilson Special Collections Library.

Encoded by: Laura Smith, April 2018

Theodore Earl Davis, Jr., was born 31 August 1936 in Greenville, S.C. He lived in Raleigh, N.C., for 42 years and was employed by the Central YMCA. He collected jazz music and literature for more than 60 years. He died in Brevard, N.C., in December 2013.

Published sound recordings, compact discs and LPs, and books relating to jazz music.