Memorandum: A Message From the Director of the War Relocation Authority

Publications and a small group of correspondence and photographs related to the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona, 1943-1945, collected by Mary Burford Courage, a schoolteacher at the camp. Publications published by the United States War Relocation Authority include information distributed to employees and Japanese Americans incarcerated in the camp. The collection includes contemporary newspaper clippings and issues of the Pacific Citizen newspaper in 1944, as well as related newspaper clippings from 1992 about the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans. Photographs in the collection include overviews of the camp, as well as informal portraits of children and a view of a toy lending library. The collection also includes photographic Christmas cards, circa 1952-1955, from the Kitaji family, who were incarcerated in the camp.