True life in the far West by the American cowboy ...
Image Count:
6
Subject (Topic):
Cowboys --West (U.S.) --History, Hopi Indians --Rites and ceremonies, Patent medicines--United States--19th century, Pueblo Indians --Rites and ceremonies, Ranch life --West (U.S.), Snake dance--Arizona, Southwest, New--Description and travel, and Texas --Description and travel
Mary Burford Courage papers related to the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona, 1943-1992.
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 15
Image Count:
12
Description:
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. 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.) and Poston (Ariz.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Courage, Mary Burford, Kitaji family, Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.), Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.)--Pictorial works, and United States.--War Relocation Authority
Subject (Topic):
Concentration camps--Arizona, Concentration camps--Arizona--Pictorial works, Concentration camps--United States, Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945, Japanese--United States, World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Arizona--Poston, World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Arizona--Poston--Pictorial works, and World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
Inscribed on overleaf: The idea & conception came to me 13 days after Hiroshima. Elodie, returning from MOMA, having worked all day, said I would have to stylize the skull & get away from a more realistic depiction, & she even drew as I recall, a simple drawing from which I preserved this set.
