Records related to the community government at the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 7
Image Count:
4
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
Records related to the community government at the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 21
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
Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) Foote, Caleb, 1917-2006
Published / Created:
[1943?]
Call Number:
WA MSS S-1590
Collection Title:
Walter Millsap / Keikichi Akana Imamura family papers
Container / Volume:
Box 2 | Folder 40
Image Count:
15
Abstract:
Correspondence, writings, and printed material collected by Walter Millsap. Chiefly correspondence between Millsap and the Imamura family during the Imamuras' internment at the Gila River Relocation Center. Millsap's letters to the Imamuras are represented by carbon copies. The letters discuss Japanese relocation and Millsap's United Co-Operative Industries, as well as his involvement in the Llano Colony, a socialist utopian community. Included are several typescripts of essays by Keikichi's wife, Toshiko Imamura, and some cartoons by their son, Keichi.
Description:
Keikichi Akana Imamura was a salesman for Millsap's United Co-Operative Industries before World War II and an adjunct professor in Oriental languages at Yale University in the fall of 1945. and Walter Millsap was from 1916 to 1919 an active member of the utopian Llano colony, a socialist community which moved from its original location in California to Louisiana in 1917. Millsap was trustee of United Co-Operative Industries and head of the Llano Co-Operative Association.
Subject (Name):
Albers, Clem, Fisher, Galen Merriam, 1873-1955, Gila River Relocation Center, Imamura, Keichi, Imamura, Keikichi Akana, Imamura, Toshiko, Keikichi Akana Imamura Family--Archives, Llano Colony (Secular community), Millsap, Walter,--1886-1971--Archives, and United States. War Relocation Authority
Subject (Topic):
Cooperative societies--United States, Japanese American women, Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945, and Utopian socialism--United States
Mary Burford Courage papers related to the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona
Container / Volume:
Broadside Folder
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Army revokes West Coast exclusion order
Description:
Inner pages wanting.
Subject (Name):
Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.), Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.)--Periodicals, and United States.--War Relocation Authority
Subject (Topic):
Concentration camps--Arizona, Concentration camps--United States, Japanese American literature --Arizona --Poston --20th century --Periodicals, Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945, World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Arizona--Poston, and World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
Walter Millsap / Keikichi Akana Imamura family papers
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 14
Image Count:
6
Abstract:
Correspondence, writings, and printed material collected by Walter Millsap. Chiefly correspondence between Millsap and the Imamura family during the Imamuras' internment at the Gila River Relocation Center. Millsap's letters to the Imamuras are represented by carbon copies. The letters discuss Japanese relocation and Millsap's United Co-Operative Industries, as well as his involvement in the Llano Colony, a socialist utopian community. Included are several typescripts of essays by Keikichi's wife, Toshiko Imamura, and some cartoons by their son, Keichi.
Description:
Keikichi Akana Imamura was a salesman for Millsap's United Co-Operative Industries before World War II and an adjunct professor in Oriental languages at Yale University in the fall of 1945. and Walter Millsap was from 1916 to 1919 an active member of the utopian Llano colony, a socialist community which moved from its original location in California to Louisiana in 1917. Millsap was trustee of United Co-Operative Industries and head of the Llano Co-Operative Association.
Subject (Name):
Gila River Relocation Center, Imamura, Keichi, Imamura, Keikichi Akana, Imamura, Toshiko, Keikichi Akana Imamura Family--Archives, Llano Colony (Secular community), and Millsap, Walter,--1886-1971--Archives
Subject (Topic):
Cooperative societies--United States, Japanese American women, Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945, and Utopian socialism--United States
Walter Millsap / Keikichi Akana Imamura family papers
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 14
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Correspondence, writings, and printed material collected by Walter Millsap. Chiefly correspondence between Millsap and the Imamura family during the Imamuras' internment at the Gila River Relocation Center. Millsap's letters to the Imamuras are represented by carbon copies. The letters discuss Japanese relocation and Millsap's United Co-Operative Industries, as well as his involvement in the Llano Colony, a socialist utopian community. Included are several typescripts of essays by Keikichi's wife, Toshiko Imamura, and some cartoons by their son, Keichi.
Description:
Keikichi Akana Imamura was a salesman for Millsap's United Co-Operative Industries before World War II and an adjunct professor in Oriental languages at Yale University in the fall of 1945. and Walter Millsap was from 1916 to 1919 an active member of the utopian Llano colony, a socialist community which moved from its original location in California to Louisiana in 1917. Millsap was trustee of United Co-Operative Industries and head of the Llano Co-Operative Association.
Subject (Name):
Gila River Relocation Center, Imamura, Keichi, Imamura, Keikichi Akana, Imamura, Toshiko, Keikichi Akana Imamura Family--Archives, Llano Colony (Secular community), and Millsap, Walter,--1886-1971--Archives
Subject (Topic):
Cooperative societies--United States, Japanese American women, Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945, and Utopian socialism--United States
Mary Burford Courage papers related to the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 9
Image Count:
8
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
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.
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., 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):
Courage, Mary Burford, 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, World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Arizona--Poston, and World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
Records related to the community government at the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 27
Image Count:
12
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
