Records related to the community government at the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 34
Image Count:
20
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Records related to a community government formed by Japanese American internees 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 relocation centers and Japanese Americans.
Description:
Purchased from William Reese Co. on the William Robertson Coe Fund No. 3, 2010. and The Poston Relocation Center in Arizona was the largest of the ten Japanese American internment camps operated by the United States War Relocation Authority during World War II, 1942-1945.
Subject (Geographic):
Poston (Ariz.)
Subject (Name):
Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.) and United States. War Relocation Authority
Subject (Topic):
Concentration camps--Arizona, Concentration camps--United States, Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945, Japanese--United States, and World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Arizona--Poston
Manuscript on paper, in a single cursive hand, of an English version of Manrique?s biography of Sister Ana de Jes?s, a companion of St. Teresa of Avila who also founded Carmelite convents in France and the Spanish Netherlands.
Description:
Teaching resource: English Paleography Examples, 16th-18th century
Subject (Topic):
Catholics--England, Christian saints--Spain--Biography, Counter-Reformation, Devotional literature, English, Mysticism, and Women--Religious life
The diaries describe an 1849 expedition by way of St. Joseph, Fort Kearney, Fort Laramie, South Pass, Sublette's Cut-off, Bear River, Cantonment Loring, Raft River, the Humboldt, Lassen's Route to Deer Creek, and Bruff's camp. They contain maps and sketches from the journey and notes on life in California. The journals were written from the diaries. The notebooks contain more sketches from the trip and of equipment. There are memoranda of supplies and equipment, routes, and remedies.
Alternative Title:
Emmigration, across the continent, in 1849, to
Subject (Geographic):
California --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Description and travel, West (U.S.) --Maps, and West (U.S.) --Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough, 1804-1889 and Washington City and California Mining Association
Subject (Topic):
Gold mines and mining --California --History --19th century --Personal narratives, Gold mines and mining --North America --History --19th century, Gold mines and mining --Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.), Gold mines and mining --United States --History, and Gold mines and mining --West (U.S.) --History --19th century
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a complete prognostication for someone born in the Haywards Heath region of Sussex, including his personality; the length of his life; his financial situation; his relationship to his father; the number of his marriages; satisfaction with his servants; the behavior of his "pretended friends"; and the kind of travel he will do. For example, the manuscript declares, "The Native should go many voyages or long journies...the chief end of his travelling should be to gain learning and honor; But the Moon and Mare being in opposition to the Ninth Hous, shewe that it should be very unproffitable to him." The volume also includes 7 horoscope drawings.
Description:
Armorial bookplate of Fairfax of Cameron; signature of Michael Lort (1725-90)., Binding: contemporary panelled calf, gilt., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Marbled endpapers., On title page: An Astrological Judgment Upon the Nativity of a Gentleman born in the Latitude of 51 degr. And from the Meridian of London to the Westward 13 min: Astronomically and Astrologically Performed by Phillip Williams, Student in Astrology., and Pages 46-50 blank, not digitized.
Subject (Geographic):
Sussex (England)
Subject (Name):
Williams, Phillip
Subject (Topic):
Astrology, Divination, Fortune-telling, Horoscopes, and Planets
An epitaph on one Affleck an itinerant linnen draper, The following epitaph was found written in chalk upon a tomb-stone ..., The hard duty of Dean Swifts curate, and Tit for tat from the Sentimental Magazine
Poems on various subjects extracted chiefly from the works of some of the most celebrated poets
Image Count:
23
Alternative Title:
Another, Another from the French, Baucis and Philemon imitated from the 8th book of Ovid, Epigram, Mary the cookmaid's letter to Dr Sheridan, On Colly Cibber, On Stephen Duck, and The journal of a modern lady