COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Frederick William Poate papers include correspondence, photographs, map, ephemera, and bulletins of the Old Comrades Association. Letters are mostly written to his sister Bessie (Mrs. Elizabeth Poate Fleming) and his nephew, her son Thomas. Other correspondents include Bessie's husband John, their daughter Edith, Cornell track coach Lou Montgomery, and runner Robin Day. Correspondence for the years 1935 to 1948 documents events in China; later letters concern the family business, with some...

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Frederick William Poate papers include correspondence, photographs, map, ephemera, and bulletins of the Old Comrades Association. Letters are mostly written to his sister Bessie (Mrs. Elizabeth Poate Fleming) and his nephew, her son Thomas. Other correspondents include Bessie's husband John, their daughter Edith, Cornell track coach Lou Montgomery, and runner Robin Day. Correspondence for the years 1935 to 1948 documents events in China; later letters concern the family business, with some...

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Frederick William Poate papers include correspondence, photographs, map, ephemera, and bulletins of the Old Comrades Association. Letters are mostly written to his sister Bessie (Mrs. Elizabeth Poate Fleming) and his nephew, her son Thomas. Other correspondents include Bessie's husband John, their daughter Edith, Cornell track coach Lou Montgomery, and runner Robin Day. Correspondence for the years 1935 to 1948 documents events in China; later letters concern the family business, with some...

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Frederick William Poate papers include correspondence, photographs, map, ephemera, and bulletins of the Old Comrades Association. Letters are mostly written to his sister Bessie (Mrs. Elizabeth Poate Fleming) and his nephew, her son Thomas. Other correspondents include Bessie's husband John, their daughter Edith, Cornell track coach Lou Montgomery, and runner Robin Day. Correspondence for the years 1935 to 1948 documents events in China; later letters concern the family business, with some...

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Frederick William Poate papers include correspondence, photographs, map, ephemera, and bulletins of the Old Comrades Association. Letters are mostly written to his sister Bessie (Mrs. Elizabeth Poate Fleming) and his nephew, her son Thomas. Other correspondents include Bessie's husband John, their daughter Edith, Cornell track coach Lou Montgomery, and runner Robin Day. Correspondence for the years 1935 to 1948 documents events in China; later letters concern the family business, with some...

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Frederick William Poate papers include correspondence, photographs, map, ephemera, and bulletins of the Old Comrades Association. Letters are mostly written to his sister Bessie (Mrs. Elizabeth Poate Fleming) and his nephew, her son Thomas. Other correspondents include Bessie's husband John, their daughter Edith, Cornell track coach Lou Montgomery, and runner Robin Day. Correspondence for the years 1935 to 1948 documents events in China; later letters concern the family business, with some...

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Frederick William Poate papers include correspondence, photographs, map, ephemera, and bulletins of the Old Comrades Association. Letters are mostly written to his sister Bessie (Mrs. Elizabeth Poate Fleming) and his nephew, her son Thomas. Other correspondents include Bessie's husband John, their daughter Edith, Cornell track coach Lou Montgomery, and runner Robin Day. Correspondence for the years 1935 to 1948 documents events in China; later letters concern the family business, with some...

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Frederick William Poate papers include correspondence, photographs, map, ephemera, and bulletins of the Old Comrades Association. Letters are mostly written to his sister Bessie (Mrs. Elizabeth Poate Fleming) and his nephew, her son Thomas. Other correspondents include Bessie's husband John, their daughter Edith, Cornell track coach Lou Montgomery, and runner Robin Day. Correspondence for the years 1935 to 1948 documents events in China; later letters concern the family business, with some...

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Frederick William Poate papers include correspondence, photographs, map, ephemera, and bulletins of the Old Comrades Association. Letters are mostly written to his sister Bessie (Mrs. Elizabeth Poate Fleming) and his nephew, her son Thomas. Other correspondents include Bessie's husband John, their daughter Edith, Cornell track coach Lou Montgomery, and runner Robin Day. Correspondence for the years 1935 to 1948 documents events in China; later letters concern the family business, with some...

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Frederick William Poate papers include correspondence, photographs, map, ephemera, and bulletins of the Old Comrades Association. Letters are mostly written to his sister Bessie (Mrs. Elizabeth Poate Fleming) and his nephew, her son Thomas. Other correspondents include Bessie's husband John, their daughter Edith, Cornell track coach Lou Montgomery, and runner Robin Day. Correspondence for the years 1935 to 1948 documents events in China; later letters concern the family business, with some...