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
Japan. 陸地測量部., Japan. 陸軍. 参謀本部., and アンカレッヂ--ダッチハーバー / 陸地測量部, 参謀本部.
Description:
"Kōkūzu gunji himitsu (senchi ni arite wa 'bugaihi' to su) ", "Sanbyakuman-bun-no-ichi Han Taiheiyō yochizu jūrokugō kōkūzu sozu.", "航空圖軍事祕密 (戰地ニ在リテハ「部外祕」トス).", and Publication date of 1943 infered by date for the magnetic declination information on map.
Publisher:
s.n.],
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska--Maps
Subject (Name):
Japan. Rikuchi Sokuryōbu and Japan. Rikugun. Sanbō Honbu
