- Published / Created:
- undated
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2650
- Collection Title:
- Records related to the community government at the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 46
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Resolution No. 2
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- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-2651
- Collection Title:
- 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
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Six photographs of children and camp life]