Walter Millsap / Keikichi Akana Imamura family papers
Container / Volume:
Box 2 | Folder 47
Image Count:
5
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, Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.), 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
Records related to the community government at the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 19
Image Count:
7
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
Senior edition, Senior edition: Today we follow, tomorrow we lead, Today we follow, tomorrow we lead : senior colors, red and white, and Tri-Stater.
Description:
"Our journey through high school has been trying but fruitful. There have been critical, discouraging days when our thoughts were filled with pessimistic ideas and doubts as to our future position in this world"--"Prexy's message," page 4., "To the class of '43, the first graduating class of the Tri-State High School, we sincerely dedicate this senior edition of the Tri-Stater"--"Dedication," page 2., A mimeographed yearbook for the Tri-State High School at the Tule Lake Relocation Center in Newell, California, an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II., and BEIN Zc72 943to: Mimeographed text is very faint, to the point of being unreadable on certain pages. Original wrappers.
Subject (Name):
Tri-State High School (Newell, Calif.) and Tule Lake Relocation Center
Subject (Topic):
Concentration camps --California and Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
Published by the staff of the Fresno grapevine at the Fresno Assembly Center established by the Wartime Civil Control Administration for civilians of Japanese ancestry.
Publisher:
[Fresno Grapevine]
Subject (Topic):
Japanese Americans --California, Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945, and World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--California
Published by the staff of the Fresno grapevine at the Fresno Assembly Center established by the Wartime Civil Control Administration for civilians of Japanese ancestry. and Subtitle: ... A Pictorial Record of Life in the Fresno Assembly Center
Publisher:
[Fresno Grapevine]
Subject (Topic):
Japanese Americans --California, Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945, and World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--California
Records related to the community government at the Poston Relocation Center, Arizona
Container / Volume:
Box 1 | Folder 40
Image Count:
14
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:
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, World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Arizona--Poston, World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--United States, and World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
Two watercolor drawings made in and around the Central Utah Relocation Center near Delta, Utah, by Japanese prisoners of war. The first is an untitled landscape view of the Topaz Valley, the site of the center; it measures 28 x 39 cm and is signed at the lower left corner "S. Mikami." The second is a scene within the camp and features residential cabins, pathways, and unidentified figures at either sunrise or sunset. It is signed at the lower right with Japanese characters and a red chop mark, measures 27 x 38 cm, and is inscribed in pencil on the reverse in an unidentified hand: “Delta, Utah / Japanese / Relocation / Camp / 19.”
Description:
Purchased from William Reese Company (PBA Galleries sale, San Francisco, 2013 July 11, lot 253) on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2013.
Subject (Geographic):
Sevier Desert (Utah)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Central Utah Relocation Center--Pictorial works and Mikami, Charles Erabu,--1902-1998
Subject (Topic):
Artists--United States, Concentration camps--United States--Pictorial works, and Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
