Publication: United States War Relocation Authority, The Relocation Program, A Guidebook for the Residents of Relocation Centers

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Title
Publication: United States War Relocation Authority, The Relocation Program, A Guidebook for the Residents of Relocation Centers
Contributor
Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.)
United States. War Relocation Authority
Published / Created
1943 May
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.
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.
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
WA MSS S-2650
Collection Title
Records related to the community government at the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona
Collection Date
1942-1945
Container / Volume
Box 1 | Folder 27

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format
text
Genre
Manuscripts
Resource Type
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Geographic)
Poston (Ariz.)
Subject (Name)
Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.)
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
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Arizona--Poston

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Citation
Records Related to the Community Government at the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
9617823
Object ID (OID)
17186511

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