Mary Burford Courage papers related to the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona, 1943-1992Courage, Mary Burford, collectorengjpnPublications and a small group of correspondence and photographs related to the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona, 1943-1945, collected by Mary Burford Courage, a schoolteacher at the camp. Publications published by the United States War Relocation Authority include information distributed to employees and Japanese Americans incarcerated in the camp. The collection includes contemporary newspaper clippings and issues of the Pacific Citizen newspaper in 1944, as well as related newspaper clippings from 1992 about the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans. Photographs in the collection include overviews of the camp, as well as informal portraits of children and a view of a toy lending library. The collection also includes photographic Christmas cards, circa 1952-1955, from the Kitaji family, who were incarcerated in the campThe 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.Mary Burford Courage (born circa 1897) taught English language classes at Poston II High School at the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona, 1943-1945. After World War II she taught at the Kahuku High and Elementary School in Hawaii.Chiefly in English; some items in Japanese.