MS 042
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Collection Summary | |
| Creator: |
United States -- Army -- Regimental Combat
Team -- 442nd -- Photographs |
| Collection Name: | United States War Relocation Authority Collection, |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1942-1946 |
| Physical Description: | 9 linear feet |
| Abstract: | Publications, reports, manuals, correspondence, photographs, and other materials relating mainly to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. |
| Collection Number: | MS 042 |
| Repository: |
University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections University of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-621-6423 Fax: 520-621-9733 URL: http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/ |
The U.S. War Relocation Authority was responsible for the relocation, internment, and reintegration of Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II. From 1942 to 1946, Edward H. Spicer, Anthropology professor at the University of Arizona, was Head of the Community Analysis Section of the War Relocation Authority, in Washington, D.C.
Publications, reports, manuals, correspondence, photographs, and other materials relating mainly to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
The largest group of material encompasses Community Analysis Reports from 11 individual relocation centers. The centers were located in Poston and Rivers, Ariz.; Denson and Rohwer, Ark.; Manzanar and Newell, Calif.; Amache, Colo.; Hunt, Idaho; Oswego, N.Y.; Topaz, Utah; and Heart Mountain, Wyo. The center at Oswego, N.Y. housed war refugees from southern Europe.
The next largest group of materials is comprised of official W.R.A. pamphlets, as well as typescript studies by various W.R.A. personnel, including Spicer. These studies are often concerned with sociological issues such as racism, the effects of center life on the evacuees, and their attitudes about Japan. Among the newspapers, two are in Japanese: the "Washington Daily News Digest," 1945, and an issue of the "Doho," 1943, from New York. Incoming and outgoing correspondence relates both to Spicer and John F. Embree, of the Community Analysis Section; also Dillon S. Myer of the W.R.A. Some letters are from the community analysts informally reporting events at the different relocation centers.
Statistic reports include relocations by state, and returns to the West Coast by city. Government documents relate to House and Senate bills and resolutions, cases before the Supreme Court, the administration of alien property, and hearings before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Among the miscellaneous items are maps, organizational charts, the official administrative manual, information on Buddhism, transcripts of speeches and radio broadcasts, bibliographic citations, and poetry written by center residents. Black-and-white photographs are well-identified by place, photographer, subject, and often individuals' names. They depict the centers; W.R.A. officials; soldiers of the all-Japanese American 442nd Combat Team
Some materials are in Japanese.
None.
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents for the University of Arizona, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.
Related material is located in the United States Wartime Civil Control Administration Collection (MS 239).
United States War Relocation Authority collection(MS 042). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries.
| Series I: General Files, 1942-1946 | |||||||||||
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| 1 | 1-3 | Administrative Instructions, no. 1-97. , 1942-1946 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Bibliographies; Books. , 1942-1946 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Buddhism. , 1942-1946 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Center Liaison Section. Report. , 1945 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Codes, File Outlines, Slide Lists. , 1942-1946 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Community Government. , 1942-1946 | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | Community School Forum, vol. 1, no. 2-4. , June-August 1943 | |||||||||
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| 2 | 1 | Conferences. , 1942-1946 | |||||||||
| 2 | 2 | Exclusion Papers; Post-Exclusion Bulletin, no. 1-8. , 1942-1946 | |||||||||
| 2 | 3 | F.B.I. Investigations at the Centers. , 1942-1946 | |||||||||
| 2 | 4 | Japanese Poetry by Residents of the Centers. , 1942-1946 | |||||||||
| 2 | 5 | Juvenile Delinquency. , 1942-1946 | |||||||||
| 2 | 6 | Manual and Supplements. , 1942-1946 | |||||||||
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| 3 | 1 | Maps; Organization Charts. , 1942-1946 | |||||||||
| 3 | 2 | Miscellaneous Documents (mimeographed). , 1942-1946 | |||||||||
| 3 | 3 | Myer, Dillon S. Speeches. , 1942-1946 | |||||||||
| 3 | 4 | Newspaper Clippings. , 1942-1946 . | |||||||||
| 3 | 5 | Office Memorandum (mimeographed). Office of the Solicitor: Index-Digest of Opinions... Regional Attorney Opinions (Pacific Coast Region). , March 18, 1942-June 30, 1942 | |||||||||
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| 4 | 1 | Press Releases. , 1942-1946 | |||||||||
| 4 | 2 | Relocation Division Memorandum, nos. 25-103. , 1942-1946 | |||||||||
| 4 | 3 | Relocation Forum. , September-October 1943 | |||||||||
| 4 | 4-5 | Report (Semi-annual). Includes E.H. Spicer's original notes and drafts. , January 1943-June 1946 | |||||||||
| 4 | 6 | Report (Quarterly), 1st-3rd. , March-December 1942 | |||||||||
| 4 | 7 | Report (Final). Includes original notes of R.B. Spicer only. , 1942-1946 | |||||||||
| 4 | 8 | Reprints and extracts from various publications. , 1942-1946 | |||||||||
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| 5 | 1-2 | Reprints from newspapers. , 1942-1946 | |||||||||
| 5 | 3 | Resettlement; Reactions. , 1942-1946 | |||||||||
| 5 | 4 | Resettlement Brochures. , 1942-1946 | |||||||||
| 5 | 5 | Resolutions; Articles Pro and Con on Japanese Relocation. , 1942-1946 | |||||||||
| 5 | 6 | Speeches and Radio Broadcasts. , 1942-1946 | |||||||||
| 5 | 7 | Thank you letters. , 1942-1946 | |||||||||
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| 6 | 1-4 | Administrative Notices: Numbered 1-343. , November 1943-March 1946 | |||||||||
| 6 | 5 | Administrative Notices: Unnumbered. , June 1942-February 1946 | |||||||||
| Series II: Newspapers, 1943-1947 | |||||||||||
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| 7 | 1-4 | Daily News Digest. , 1944-1946 | |||||||||
| 7 | 5 | Information Digest (for use of the W.R.A. staff). Miscellaneous Numbers. , January 1944-September/October 1945 | |||||||||
| 7 | 6 | Washington Daily News Digest (in Japanese). Miscellaneous Issues. , May-September 1945 | |||||||||
| 7 | 7 | Miscellaneous Newspapers: Doho (Japanese) N.Y., Inside Interior (Department of Interior), Northwest Times ("Only All-English Nisei Newspaper in Pacific Northwest) Seattle, Pacific Citizen (Official Publication of Japanese Americans League), Salt Lake City. , 1943-1947. | |||||||||
| Series III: Community Analysis Section Publications, 1943-1946 | |||||||||||
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| 8 | 1 | Community Analysis Program (General). , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 8 | 2 | Community Analysis Program (Final Report - including E.H.Spicer's Notes and Preliminary Drafts). , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 8 | 3 | Community Analysis Notes, nos. 1-15. , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 8 | 4 | Project Analysis Series, nos. 1-24. , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 8 | 5 | Community Analysis Report, nos. 1-19. , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 8 | 6 | Trends in the Relocation Centers, series II-III. , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 8 | 7 | Weekly Summary, nos. 1-30. , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 8 | 8 | Community Analysis Relocation Studies, no. 1. , April 1944 | |||||||||
| 8 | 9 | Community Analyst Letter, nos. 1-4. , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| Series IV: Statistic Reports, 1943-1945 | |||||||||||
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| 9 | 1 | Office of the Solicitor: A Memorandum on the Validity of Detention Under Leave Regulations of the War Relocation Authority. , January 1, 1944 | |||||||||
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| 9 | 2 | Leave (Miscellaneous Documents). , 1943-1945 | |||||||||
| 9 | 3 | Net Absences on Leave by Centers. Weekly Report. , 1943-1945 | |||||||||
| 9 | 4 | Reported Relocation by States. Monthly Report, no. 1-12. , 1943-1945 | |||||||||
| 9 | 5-6 | Returns to West Coast: City (Cumulative); County & Citizenship (Cumulative); Cumulative Summary. , 1943-1945 | |||||||||
| 9 | 7 | Terminal Departures from Centers: Weekly, no. 1-148; Monthly, no. 1-3, 9; Final summary. , 1943-1945 | |||||||||
| 9 | 8 | Miscellaneous Statistics. , 1943-1945 | |||||||||
| Series V: Correspondence, 1942-1946 | |||||||||||
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| 10 | Correspondence, A-L. Arranged Alphabetically by Author. , 1942-1946 | ||||||||||
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| 11 | Correspondence, M-Z. Arranged Alphabetically by Author. , 1942-1946 | ||||||||||
| Series VI: Relocation Center Documents, 1943-1946 | |||||||||||
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| 12 | 1-2 | Colorado River Relocation Center, Poston, Arizona: Community Analysis Trend Report, no. 1-88. , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 12 | 3-5 | Essays, Notes, Reports, Letters. , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 12 | 6 | Miscellaneous Sociological Notes by E.H. Spicer. , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 12 | 7 | E.H. Spicer's Anthropology Class (Examinations, Student Papers). , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
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| 13 | 1 | Central Utah Relocation Center, Topaz, Utah: Community Analysis Reports, nos. 1-74. , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 13 | 2 | Community Analysis Weekly Trend Reports, nos. 1-41. , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 13 | 3 | Miscelleaneous Papers. Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter, Oswego, NY. , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 13 | 4 | Miscellaneous Papers. Gila River Relocation Center, Rivers, Arizona. , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 13 | 5 | Community Analysis Reports, nos. 1-65. , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 13 | 6 | Community Analysis Weekly Trend Reports, nos. 1, 7-18. , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 13 | 7 | Miscellaneous Papers. , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
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| 14 | 1-2 | Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming: Community Analysis Notes, nos. 1-193. , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 14 | 3-4 | Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming: Community Analyst Trend Report, nos. 1-80. , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 14 | 5 | Miscellaneous papers. Includes Report on The Heart Mountain Hospital Walkout. , June 24, 1943 | |||||||||
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| 15 | 1-2 | Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado: Community Analysis Reports, nos. 1-105. , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 15 | 3 | Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado: Comunity Analyst Weekly Trend Reports, nos. 1-24. , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 15 | 4 | Miscellaneous Papers. Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas. , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 15 | 5 | Community Analysis Reports, nos. 50, 69, 100, 114, 136. Miscellaneous Papers. Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 15 | 6 | Community Analysis Reports, nos. 1-349. , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 15 | 7 | Miscellaneous Papers. , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 15 | 8 | Studies by Morris E. Opler: A History of Internal Government at Manzanar, March 1942-December 6, 1942 and The Repatriate-Expatriate Group of Manzanar. , 1944 | |||||||||
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| 16 | 1 | Minidoka Relocation Center, Hunt, Idaho: Community Analysis Reports, nos. 267-349. , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 16 | 2 | Miscellaneous Papers. Rohwer Relocation Center, Rohwer, Arkansas. , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 16 | 3 | Community Analyst Weekly Trend Reports, nos. 1-33. , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 16 | 4 | Miscellaneous Papers. Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 16 | 5 | Community Analysis Reports, nos. 5, 106, 140, 203, 204. , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| 16 | 6 | Miscellaneous Papers. , 1943-1946 | |||||||||
| Series VII: Photographs and Publications, 1942-1945 | |||||||||||
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| 17 | 1-6 | Photographs: Relocation Centers. , 1942-1945 | |||||||||
| 17 | 7 | Photographs: War Relocation Authority Officials. , 1942-1945 | |||||||||
| 17 | 8 | Photographs: Camp Shelby, Mississippi (442d Combat Team). , 1942-1945 | |||||||||
| 17 | 9 | Photographs: Japanese at Work After Resettlement. , 1942-1945 | |||||||||
| 17 | 10 | Photographs: Making Mochigoni (a Japanese Bread) at One of the Camps. Includes 31 Assorted Publications about the Japanese by Other Authors than W.R.A. Staff Members. , 1942-1945 | |||||||||
| Series VIII: War Relocation Authority Publications and Reports, 1943-1946 | |||||||||||
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| 18 | War Relocation Authority Publications and Reports. , 1943-1946 | ||||||||||
| Includes: | |||||||||||
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Administrative Highlights of the WRA Program.
1946
Aims and Plans of WRA by D.S.
Myer. In Japanese. 1943
Annual Report of the Director.
1943-1944 and 1944-1945
By-Product of War by Ruth E.
McKee. No Date
Community Government in War Relocation
Centers. 1946
Education Program in War Relocation
Centers. 1945
The Evacuated People: A Quantitative
Description. 1946
Information for Employees of the
War Relcoation Authority. Induction Kit. No Date
Legal and Constitutional Phases of the
WRA Program. 1946?
Myths and Facts About Japanese
Americans. June 1945
National and Local Organizations and
Agencies Maintaining Programs for Japanese Americans: A Directory. June
1946
New Neighbors Among Us. August
1944
Nisei in the War Against Japan.
April 1945.
Nisei in Uniform. 1943?
People in Motion: the Postwar
Adjustment of the Evacuated Japanese Americans. 1946?
Pertinent Facts About Relocation Centers
and Japanese Americans. No Date
Questions and Answers for
Evacuees No Date
Relocating a People. No
Date
Relocating Japanese-American Evacuees. No
Date
Relocating Japanese Americans.
May 1945
Relocation Communities for Wartime
Evacuees. September 1942
Relocation of
Japanese-Americans. May 1943
The Relocation Program. 1946
The Relocation Program: a
Guidebook for the Residents of Relocation Centers. May 1943
Segregation of Evacuees. No
Date
The Segregation Program: a
Statement for Appointed Personnel in WRA Centers. No Date
Token Shipment: the Story of
America's War Refugee Shelter. 1946
Uprooted Americans in Your
Community. May 1945
WRA: A Story of Human
Conservation. 1946
The War Relocation Work Corps: A
Circular of Information for Enlistees and Their Families. No Date
Wartime Exile: the Exclusion of
the Japanese Americans from the West Coast. 1946
The Wartime Handling of Evacuee
Property. 1946
What We're Fighting For:
Statements by United States Servicemen about Americans of Japanese Descent. No
Date
Your Job as Reports Officer. No
Date
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| 19 | 1 | Bohannan, Laura, A., Law and the Japanese in the United States. | |||||||||
| 19 | 2 | Freed, Anne, The Changing Japanese Family in the United States. | |||||||||
| 19 | 2 | Freed, Anne, Evacuee Participation in Segregation. , 1943 | |||||||||
| 19 | 2 | Freed, Anne, Family Relocation Counseling. General. . , 1944 | |||||||||
| 19 | 2 | Freed, Anne, The Issei and Relocation. , 1944 | |||||||||
| 19 | 3 | Luomala, Katharine, California Attitudes About the Amount of Publicity Desirable for Returning Evacuees. , 1945 | |||||||||
| 19 | 3 | Luomala, Katharine, California Takes Back Its Japanese Evacuees. , 1945 | |||||||||
| 19 | 3 | Luomala, Katharine, Community Analysis Outside the Relocation Centers. Paper Given at Society of Applied AnthropologyConference, NYC. , May 1946 | |||||||||
| 19 | 3 | Luomala, Katharine, Fellow Californians are Fellow Americans. | |||||||||
| 19 | 4 | McKee, Ruth, History of WRA to June 30, 1944. . , 1944 | |||||||||
| 19 | 5 | Myer, Dillon S., War Relocation Authority (2 drafts). | |||||||||
| 19 | 6 | Provinse, John H., The Development of a War-Time Community (2 drafts). , 1946 | |||||||||
| 19 | 6 | Provinse, John H., Proposal for a Comparative Study of the Treatment of Persons of Japanese Ancestry During World War II in Mexico, Canada, Hawaii, and Continental United States. , 1945 | |||||||||
| 19 | 7 | Sady, Rachel R., Issei Attitudes Toward Japan. , 1944 | |||||||||
| 19 | 7 | Sady, Rachel R., Issei Points of View. , 1944 | |||||||||
| 19 | 7 | Sady, Rachel R., Plan for Study of Leave Clearance Denials. , 1944 | |||||||||
| 19 | 7 | Sady, Rachel R., Sit Tighters. , 1945 | |||||||||
| 19 | 8 | Spicer, Edward H., An Analysis of Requests for Repatriation and Expatriation. , 1944 | |||||||||
| 19 | 8 | Spicer, Edward H., Current Problems of Japanese American Adjustment. , 1945 | |||||||||
| 19 | 8 | Spicer, Edward H., The Effects of Center Life on the Evacuee Population. , 1944 | |||||||||
| 19 | 8 | Spicer, Edward H., First Generation Japanese Americans (unfinished). | |||||||||
| 19 | 8 | Spicer, Edward H., History of the Community Analysis Section. , 1945 | |||||||||
| 19 | 8 | Spicer, Edward, H., Japanese Americans Educated in Japan (rough draft). , 1944 | |||||||||
| 19 | 8 | Spicer, Edward H., On Being Pushed Around. | |||||||||
| 19 | 9 | Spicer, Edward H., Racism in Reverse: the Story of the WRA (Final and Several Preliminary Drafts). | |||||||||
| 19 | 10-11 | Spicer, Edward H. and others, Impounded People: Japanese Americans in the Relocation Centers (2 drafts). | |||||||||
| 19 | 12 | DeYoung, John, Chapter IV: Background to the Resettler Community. , 1945 | |||||||||
| 19 | 12 | Embree, John F., Dealing with Japanese Americans. , 1942 | |||||||||
| 19 | 12 | Kimball, S.T., The Caucasians Make the Rules. , 1945? | |||||||||
| 19 | 12 | Lantis, M., Possible Family Reactions to Liquidation of the Centers. , 1944 | |||||||||
| 19 | 12 | McVoy, Edgar C., Discussion of Relocation Problems. , 1943 | |||||||||
| 19 | 12 | Marks, E.B., Factors Influencing Morale in Relocation Centers. , 1944 | |||||||||
| 19 | 12 | Mercer, Inez, Suggestions for Job Relations Training at Relocation Centers. , 1944 | |||||||||
| 19 | 12 | Powell, John W., American's Refugees: Exodus and Diaspora. , 1943 | |||||||||
| 19 | 12 | Rademaker, John A. and Lind, A.W., An Examination of the Underlying Causal Factors Related to the Differences in the Treatment Accorded to Americans of Japanese Ancestry in theContinental United States and in Hawaii. | |||||||||
| 19 | 12 | Thomas, Dorothy, Study of the Evacuation and Resettlement of Japanese on the West Coast. , 1942 | |||||||||
| 19 | 12 | Tynes, Richard, No Time for Hate. | |||||||||
| 19 | 12 | Bureau of Sociological Research, Colorado River War Relocation Center, The Japanese Family in America. | |||||||||
| Series IX: Government Documents Relating to War Relocation Authority, 1942-1946 | |||||||||||
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| 20 | 1 | Bills and Resolutions (House and Senate). , 1942-1946 | |||||||||
| 20 | 2 | Material prepared by WRA for Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. , 1942-1946 | |||||||||
| 20 | 3 | Documents on National Defense Migration. , 1942-1946 | |||||||||
| 20 | 3 | Documents on Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States. , 1942-1946 | |||||||||
| 20 | 3 | Documents on Ware Relocation Centers. , 1942-1946 | |||||||||
| 20 | 3 | Documents on Immigration, Deportation, and Naturalization. , 1942-1946 | |||||||||
| 20 | 3 | Documents on the Administration of Alien Property and Tort Claims Against the U.S. , 1942-1946 | |||||||||
| 20 | 3 | Documents on Appropriations. , 1942-1946 | |||||||||
| 20 | 3 | Documents of the Supreme Court - Cases re Japanese-American Citizens. , 1942-1946 | |||||||||