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Title: Joshua B. Powers Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1876-1969
Collection number: 68026
Collector:
Powers, Joshua B.
Physical Description:
6 manuscript boxes, 6 envelopes, 1 oversize box
(3.2 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Materials relating to Homer Lea, military adviser to Sun Yat-sen and author of The Valor of Ignorance, and to the revolutionary
movement in China, ca. 1900-1920 including Correspondence, telegrams, biographies, articles, pamphlets, clippings, writings,
photographs, maps, scrapbooks, and memorabilia, as well as writings and correspondence of Homer Lea, Ethel Lea, and J. B.
Powers.
Physical location: Hoover Institution Archives
Language:
English.
Collection open for research.
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Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1968.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
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http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Alternative Forms of Material Available
Available on microfilm
Lea, Homer, 1876-1912.
Sun, Yat-sen, 1866-1925.
China.
China--History--20th century.
China--History--Revolution, 1911-1912.
Great Britain.
Great Britain--Defenses.
United States--Foreign relations.
United States--Defenses.
Lea, Ethel.
| 1892, August 25 | born, Owensboro, Kentucky |
| 1911-1913 | student, University of Texas |
| 1926-1972 | representative, La Prensa, Buenos Aires, Republic of Argentina, and other publications, New York City |
| also: manager, United Press Association, Buenos Aires; chairman of Joshua B. Powers, Inc.; representative of newspapers in foreign countries | |
| recipient, U.S. Cabot award Columbia University; Commendator Order of Bernardo O'Higgins (Chile); Official Ordem Cruzeiro Do Sul (Brazil); gold medal Pan American Society | |
| author, Argentina's New Freedom |
| 1876, November 17 | born, Denver, Colorado |
| 1894-1896 | student, Occidental College, Los Angeles |
| 1897-1900 | student, Stanford University |
| 1900-1901 | Lieutenant-General, Imperial Reform Army, China, under Kang Yu Wei, Grand President Chinese Empire Reform Association |
| 1900 | undertook relief of Kwang Hsu, Emperor of China |
| 1902-1904 | organized Chinese military schools in U.S. and Chinese Imperial Army (C.I.A.) |
| 1908 | author, The Vermillion Pencil |
| 1909 | author, The Valor of Ignorance |
| 1910-1912 | military adviser to Sun Yat-Sen |
| 1912 | author, The Day of the Saxon |
Scope and Content of Collection
Materials relating to Homer Lea, military adviser to Sun Yat-sen and author of The Valor of Ignorance, and to the revolutionary
movement in China, ca. 1900-1920 including Correspondence, telegrams, biographies, articles, pamphlets, clippings, writings,
photographs, maps, scrapbooks, and memorabilia, as well as writings and correspondence of Homer Lea, Ethel Lea, and J. B.
Powers.
The collection is organized into six series: Correspondence of Homer Lea and Ethel Lea (Mrs. Homer Lea), Correspondence of
Joshua B. Powers and Albert H. Powers, Collected Writings of Homer Lea, Collected Writings of Joshua B. Powers, Subject File,
Miscellany, and Photographs.