Records related to the community government at the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona, 1942-1945
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17186172
Description
- Title
- Records related to the community government at the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona, 1942-1945
- Contributor
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Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.)
United States. War Relocation Authority. - Abstract
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Records related to a community government formed by Japanese Americans incarcerated at the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona, 1942-1945. Material includes reports from committees on health care, social welfare, and education, as well as a charter for the community government. The collection also includes memoranda about camp governance and other publications in English and Japanese distributed by the United States War Relocation Authority, as well as contemporary newspaper clippings about American concentration camps and Japanese Americans
- Description
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The United States declared war on Japan in 1941 following an attack by Japan on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Under authority granted by Executive Order 9066, issued in February 1942, the federal government incarcerated over 120,000 people of Japanese descent in American concentration camps. Poston Relocation Center in Arizona was the largest of the ten American concentration camps operated by the United States War Relocation Authority during World War II, 1942-1945.
Poston Relocation Center in Arizona was the largest of the ten American concentration camps operated by the United States War Relocation Authority during World War II, 1942-1945.
Chiefly in English; some items in Japanese. - Provenance
- Purchased from William Reese Co. on the William Robertson Coe Fund No. 3, 2010.
- Extent
- 0.42 linear feet (1 box) + 1 broadside folder.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been partially digitized.
- Digitization Note
- Folders 1, 7, 13, 19, 21, 27, 31, 33-34, 40, 46 fully digitized.
- Language
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English
Japanese
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- WA MSS S-2650
- Container / Volume
- Box 1
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Subject (Geographic)
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Arizona.
United States.
Arizona
Poston.
Poston (Ariz.) - Subject (Name)
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Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.)
United States. War Relocation Authority. - Subject (Topic)
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Concentration camps
Japanese
Japanese Americans
Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
World War, 1939-1945
Evacuation of civilians - Subjects
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Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.)
United States. War Relocation Authority
Concentration camps > Arizona
Concentration camps > United States
Japanese > United States
Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > United States
World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > Arizona > Poston
World War, 1939-1945 > Evacuation of civilians
World War, 1939-1945 > Japanese Americans
Poston (Ariz.)
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Records Related to the Community Government at the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 9617823
- Object ID (OID)
- 17186172
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