Harold Simmons Tate papers, 1923-1981.

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Harold Simmons Tate papers, 1923-1981.

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Topics discussed include conditions following World War II in various countries including Japan, China, the Philippines, and Greece; and efforts to rebuild the textile industry in those areas; and his life as an instructor at Clemson Agricultural College, and at the U.S. Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia. Correspondence, diaries, reports, speeches, pamphlets, photographs, and newspaper clippings reflecting Tate's work and travels. Especially voluminous from 1941 through 1953, the correspondence documents the activities of this college professor turned army officer who held important positions during and after World War II. It is supplemented by a detailed diary that, although sporadic in the 1920s and 1930s, became, by 1942, a reliable source of Harold Tate's daily activities for most of the remaining years of his life. Reports written by Tate while in Japan, China, the Philippines, and Greece provide insight into economic and foreign aid policies of the U.S. An amateur photographer, Tate documented his journeys with hundreds of images of the places and people he visited in his work. Another valuable component of the collection includes foreign pamphlets, maps, periodicals and newspapers that he collected during his career. Later materials reflect Tate's active social life and civic involvement in the social, religious and educational organizations of Columbia, S.C. Tate's papers from his time in China documents an eyewitness account of the civil war between the Communists and the Nationalists; a letter, 31 May 1949, describes the fall of Shanghai to the Communists. "Last Tuesday May 23 this city was in Nationalists hands," he wrote, "but when we awoke on Wednesday one of the first things I could see from my window was a long column of soldiers in a peculiar unfamiliar uniform." These were soldiers from the Peoples Liberation Army. Both the Joint Management Board and China Textile Industries Incorporated, the agencies with which Harold worked, were taken over by the Military Control Commission of the Peoples Liberation Army.

2 oversize folders [available on site - all other materials stored offsite]

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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