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
BEIN 1979 +S26: v. 1, no. 1 (1942) is a negative photostat. v. 1, no. 2 is a positive photostat., In English oand Japanese., no. 1-2 are unnumbered and undated., Published at the Puyallup Assembly Center established by the Wartime Civil Control Administration for civilians of Japanese ancestry., and v. 1- 1942-
Subject (Topic):
Concentration camps --United States and Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
Atomic bomb--Blast effect, Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--Bombardment, 1945, Japanese language--Texts, World War, 1939-1945--Japan--Hiroshima-shi, and 廣島市 (Japan)--Bombardment, 1945
"Limited edition of 1,000 copies, 300 of which are bound in cloth"--P. [2]., Cloth-bound copy. Dust jacket., Exhibition catalog., In English, with some info. on p. [2] also in Japanese., and Includes bibliographical references (p. [24-25]).