Records related to the community government at the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 31
Image Count:
2
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
The letterbook is in two parts: 1821-23 letters of the Missouri Fur Company by acting partner Thomas Hempstead; and 1819-22 letters of United States Military Store by the storekeeper Thomas Hempstead. The Missouri Fur Company letters are to acting partner Joshua Pilcher, Charles Billon, Louis Bompart, O. N. Bostwick, J. C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, James Monroe, Andrew Woods, and others. The military storekeeper's letters are to George Gibson, Commissary General of Subsistence at Washington, and others.
Description:
Formerly in the library of George H. Hart of New York, the letter book was sold at auction at the Anderson Galleries, October 17, 1922. Given to the library by William Robertson Coe. and Original binding.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)--Economic conditions
Subject (Name):
Gibson, George, 1783-1861, Hempstead, Thomas, 1795-, Missouri Fur Company, Pilcher, Joshua, 1790-1843, and United States--Army--Procurement
115 ALS written by Bartow Darrach while living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Kentucky; and Kansas Territory; most to his parents, James and Helena White Darrach, New York; his brother, William Bradford Darrach; and other family members in the East. Five letters are dated at Philadelphia, 1852-1853, and relate to the completion of Darrach's medical studies and his application to the United States Navy for an appointment as a medical officer. Approximately half of the letters are dated at Eddyville, Kentucky, 1853-1855, and concern Darrach's work in establishing a medical practice there. and Darrach moved to Kansas Territory in 1855; ca. fifty letters dated at Osawatomie, 1855-1856, contain a detailed narrative of the lives of settlers and events of the Kansas border war, including discussion of elections and constitutional conventions; events in Lawrence and other fighting between free soil and slavery advocates; and the killings at Pottawatomie by John Brown and the subsequent sack of Osawatomie. The letters are accompanied by an ink and watercolor portrait, 1843.
Description:
Gift of Charles and Lindley Eberstadt, 1971.
Subject (Name):
Brown, John, 1800-1859, Darrach family, Darrach, Helena White, Darrach, James, 1806-1889, and Darrach, William Bradford, 1836-1909
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life and Slavery--United States--Extension to the territories
Dawes, Henry L. (Henry Laurens), 1816-1903 Welsh, Herbert, 1851-1941
Published / Created:
[1885]
Call Number:
WA MSS 243
Collection Title:
William Hobart Hare papers
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 3
Image Count:
13
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
The papers, primarily correspondence, deal with the rights of Indians to the land in the reservation under the treaty of 1868 and the agreement of 1882, the influx of settlers under President Arthur's executive order of Feb. 27, 1885, and the rights of settlers dispossessed by President Cleveland's proclamation of April 17, 1885.
Subject (Name):
Hare, William Hobart, 1838-1909 and Indian Rights Association
Subject (Topic):
Dakota Indians--Government relations--1869-1934 and Dakota Indians--Reservations
Correspondence concerning the mission to Indians at Stockbridge, with related papers.
Subject (Geographic):
North America -- British Empire -- Massachusetts Bay Colony -- Stockbridge
Subject (Name):
Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America--Missions--Massachusetts, North America -- British Empire -- Massachusetts Bay Colony -- Stockbridge, and Stockbridge Indians--Missions
Records related to the community government at the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 13
Image Count:
2
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
Letter requests William Hickey to draw a bill providing for the governments of California, New Mexico, and Utah.
Description:
Gift of William Robertson Coe. and Henry Stuart Foote (1804-1880), elected United States senator from Mississippi in 1847 and later governor, supported the Compromise of 1850. He spent part of the 1850's in California but returned to Mississippi.
Subject (Name):
Foote, Henry S. (Henry Stuart), 1804-1880 and Hickey, William, 1798-1866