Documents composed at the Heart Mountain Relocation Camp in Wyoming : primarily in English with several newspapers and other items in Japanese

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Description

Title: Documents composed at the Heart Mountain Relocation Camp in Wyoming : primarily in English with several newspapers and other items in Japanese
Contributor: Yamakawa, David, collector.
United States. War Relocation Authority.
Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.).
Published / Created: 1943-1945]
Publication Place: Heart Mountain, Wyo
Abstract: Primarily weekly Minutes of the Community Council meetings. Also includes the camp's articles, cabinet members names, the criminal codes, War Relocation Authority newspapers, Ordinances, Round Table Discussions, job flyers for camp jobs to be filled by internees and the formation of a Study Committee for the residents' return to the West Coast
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Collection title devised by cataloger.
David Yamakawa was a Los Angeles, California resident of Japanese descent who was incarcerated in the American concentration camp, Heart Mountain Relocation Camp in Wyoming and was elected by its incarcerees to the camp Advisory Committee.
Extent: 69 items in 15 folders ; 28-36 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.

Collection Information

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Zc47 +H35
Container / Volume: 1943-1945

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Sources
Subject (Geographic): Wyoming.
Subject (Name): Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.)
Subject (Topic): Japanese Americans
Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
History
World War, 1939-1945
Concentration camps
Subjects: Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.)
Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 > History > Sources
Japanese Americans > History > 20th century > Sources
World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > Wyoming

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Identifiers

Catalog Record: 9986136593408651
Object ID (OID): 14722247