By Thomas F. Schwartz Commemorative leather portfolio given to Walter Coleman. HHPLM object #2026.1.1 Darryl Byrd, great-niece of Walter Coleman, recently donated an elaborately decorated folio case presented by local officials to Coleman for his services to the Kirghiz District in the remote southeastern Russia during the 1921-1923 famine. The leather case has inscriptions in … Continue reading Walter Coleman and the Russian Unit of the American Relief Administration
