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Toy Loan Library

Description:: Pamphlet on the Manzanar Toy Loan Project, began in 1944. Topics include founding, organization, objectives, floor plan, and mimeographed forms used by the Center. Booklet also includes six black and white photographs of children at the Toy Loan Center.
Date:: circa 1944
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Camp Harmony Newsletter, v. I no. 4-8

Description:: Camp Harmony Assembly Center newsletter, Puyallup, Washington. Includes articles on daily life in the incarceration camp, such as conditions, sports, school, the temporary detention center, and employment.
Date:: 1942 May-June
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Semi-annual report

Description:: Documents the WRA's transfer from independent war agency to Department of the Interior. Includes general description of life in incarceration camps, including reaction of incarcerees and enlistment. Includes report of the House Sub-Committee on the Tule Lake Incident, the closing of the Jerome Relocation Center, and tables and charts showing average incarceration camp populations.
Date:: 1944 January 1-June 30
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Minidoka Irrigator, v. I no. 4-14

Description:: Minidoka incarceration camp newsletter. Includes articles on daily life in the camp, such as conditions, sports, school, and employment. Also includes a Japanese Language section on the back page with a brief English guide.
Date:: 1942 September-October
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Manzanar Libraries and Visual Aid Program

Description:: Report prepared by Ruth Budd, Director of School and Community Libraries. Report covers library history, staff training, fiction library, high school and elementary division. Includes black and white photographs of staff and facilities.
Date:: 1945 January 2
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Manzanar High School Yearbook, "Cardinal and Gold"

Description:: Soft cover yearbook for the Manzanar incarceration camp graduating class of summer 1943.
Date:: 1943
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Manzanar High School Yearbook, "Our World: Manzanar, California"

Description:: Hardcover yearbook for the Manzanar incarceration camp graduating class of 1944. Illustrated.
Date:: 1943-1944
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Relocating Japanese Americans

Description:: Statistics on incarcerees, including marriage and divorce rates, numbers of renunciants, population at Tule Lake, and age composition of incarceration camp populations. Gift of Bradford Smith.
Date:: 1946
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Address. Ben Kuroki

Description:: Address by Sergeant Ben Kuroki, U.S. Army Air Force, before the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, CA (sponsored by the WRA). Details Kuroki's experience with racial prejudice while in the army, and calls for the humane treatment of Japanese Americans in the future. Kuroki was previously awarded with two Distinguished Flying Cross Medals.
Date:: 1944 February 4
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

The War Relocation Work Corps: A Circular of Information for Enlistees and Their Families

Description:: Pamphlet for Japanese Americans about incarceration camps, including family life, health, education, household effects, and the War Relocation Work Corps.
Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Address. Dillon S. Myer. "Relocation Problems and Policies"

Description:: Address by the Director of the WRA, before the Tuesday Evening Club in Pasadena, CA. Details the operations of the incarceration centers in response to Hearst newspapers' claims that incarcerees were coddled; Meyer also contends that Japanese Americans must be protected and allowed to resettle.
Date:: 1944 March 14
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

A Barrack Becomes A Home: A Cooperative Project in Homemaking by the Students of the Home Economics and Woodshop Departments of the Manzanar Secondary School

Description:: Pamphlet prepared by Beatrice White, Home Economics Supervisor, Manzanar Secondary Schools, documenting class projects. Includes photographs of a typical Manzanar barrack interior and of altered barracks.
Date:: 1945 January 5
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Wartime Exile: The Exclusion of the Japanese Americans From the West Coast

Description:: Report on the justification for incarceration of Japanese and Japanese Americans, including a history of Japanese travels to North America beginning 1610, and general descriptions of Japanese and Japanese American populations in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Portland, and Seattle. Gift of Bradford Smith.
Date:: 1946
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Quarterly report

Description:: Report covers employment statistics within incarceration camps, leave regulations, college student forced removal, and general aspects of life in incarceration camps, such as education, mess operations, religious activities, and the fears and anxieties of incarcerees.
Date:: 1942 July 1-September 30
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

"Message from the National Director to the Residents of Relocation Centers"

Description:: Open letter instructing incarcerees about resettlement, including timely departure from incarceration camps and camp closing dates.
Date:: 1945 July 12
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Press releases

Description:: WRA press releases on subjects related to incarcerees. Two items commemorate the military service of Japanese Americans, including the 110th Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.
Date:: 1944
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Education Section Summary

Description:: Report on the closing of Manzanar's education system, prepared for Ralph P. Merritt for the WRA. Includes brief overview of pre-school, elementary, secondary school, adult education programs, and library systems. Final page includes signatures of Manzanar education staff. Cover artwork by Takamura, 1942.
Date:: 1945 May 31
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

"What We're Fighting For": Statements by United States Servicemen about Americans of Japanese Descent

Description:: Pamphlet attesting to the loyalty of Nisei soldiers.
Date:: 1944
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Semi-annual report

Description:: Report covers general aspects of life in incarceration camps, including mess hall operations, recreation, and education. Also details Senate Sub-committee investigation, Spanish Consular visit, isolation procedures, and segregation procedures for pro-Japanese and pro-American incarcerees.
Date:: 1943 January 1-June 30
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Minidoka Irrigator, v. I no. 15-20

Description:: Minidoka incarceration camp newsletter. Includes articles on daily life in the camp, such as conditions, sports, school, and employment. Also includes a Japanese Language section on the back page with a brief English guide.
Date:: 1942 November
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Legal and Constitutional Phases of the WRA Program

Description:: Pamphlet designed to ease agitation and anti-Japanese American sentiment. Questions addressed include: Japanese religion and ties to emperor, Japanese Language Schools, Nisei (a person born in the US or Canada whose parents were immigrants from Japan) in the Army, honesty of the Japanese as a race, assimilability of the Japanese, agricultural Competition, and coddling by the WRA.
Date:: 1945
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

War Time Authority Community Government Handbook: A Summation of the Functions, Organization, and Relocationships of the Council of Administration

Description:: Summary of the organization, techniques, function, and objectives of incarceration camp Community Councils in 1942-1943.
Date:: 1943
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Quarterly report

Description:: Report covers general aspects of life in incarceration camps, including forced removal progress, employment of incarcerees, and repatriation. Included is a description of a strike at the Potson camp and a riot at Manzanar.
Date:: 1942 October 1-December 31
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Lil Dan'l: One Year In A Relocation Center

Description:: Limited edition pictorial review documenting the first year of life in the Rohwer incarceration camp. Designed and illustrated by George Akimoto.
Date:: 1943
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Manzanar High School Yearbook, "Valediction"

Description:: Soft cover yearbook for the Manzanar incarceration camp graduating class of 1945. Illustrated.
Date:: 1945
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Camp Harmony Newsletter, v. I no. 9-11

Description:: Camp Harmony Assembly Center newsletter, Puyallup, Washington. Includes articles on daily life in the incarceration camp, such as conditions, sports, school, the temporary detention center, and employment.
Date:: 1942 July-August
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

The Relocation Program

Description:: Historic overview of the WRA and events leading to its creation. Includes early incarceration policies, forced removal processes, and resettlement. Gift of Bradford Smith.
Date:: 1946
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Semi-annual report

Description:: Report covers general aspects of life in incarceration camps, including segregation process and problems. Details Tule Lake Incident and November 1 demonstration at Tule Lake Hospital. Fold-out map of Tule Lake included.
Date:: 1943 July 1-December 31
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

The Wartime Handling of Evacuee Property

Description:: Report on property issues created by incarceration, including the raid on Nichiren Temple, Los Angeles. Gift of Bradford Smith.
Date:: 1946
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Nisei in Uniform

Description:: Pamphlet on the segregation of Tule Lake incarcerees, including living conditions, improvement in public attitudes, and the records of Japanese American soldiers.
Date:: 1945
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Nisei in the War Against Japan

Description:: Illustrated pamphlet on Japanese Americans in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and 100th Battalion. Includes an article about Ben Kuroki, the only American of Japanese descent in the United States Army Air Forces to serve in combat operations in the Pacific theater of World War II.
Date:: 1944
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Myths and Facts About the Japanese Americans: Answering Common Misconceptions Regarding Americans of Japanese Ancestry

Description:: Reprinted newspaper articles on the bravery and sacrifices of Japanese American soldiers in World War II. Newspapers include Los Angeles Times, Tacoma News-Times, Chicago Tribune, and Omaha World Herald.
Date:: 1945
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Semi-annual report

Description:: Report summarizes resettlement, liquidation, and departure process from various incarceration camps. Resettlement issues of Tule Lake incarcerees are discussed, including renunciants and the declining influence of the Hoshidan (pro-Japanese societies).
Date:: 1945 July 1-December 31
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Address. Dillon S. Myer. "Problems of Evacuee Resettlement in California"

Description:: Address by the Director of the WRA in Eagle Rock, CA. Provides brief overview of forced removal process after 1943 and argues for resettlement of Japanese Americans.
Date:: 1945 June 19
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Senior Edition: The Spot, v. III no. 7

Description:: Student newsletter from Manzanar. Includes senior class wills of last graduating class from Manzanar High.
Date:: 1944 April 6
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Final semi-annual report

Description:: Report documents the end of the WRA, as of June 30, 1946, including the forced removal of Tule Lake residents; renunciant hearings; closing of Tule Lake; and a general summary of incarceration processes.
Date:: 1946 January 1-June 30
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Address. Dillon S. Myer. "One Thousandth of A Nation"

Description:: Address by the Director of the WRA, before a joint meeting of civic organizations in Salt Lake City, UT. Includes descriptions of life in the incarceration camps, and argues for the resettlement of Japanese Americans.
Date:: 1944 March 23
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Semi-annual report

Description:: Report discussed resettlement procedures, housing problems, incarceree attitudes, the children's village at Manzanar, and labor attitudes of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and the American Federation of Labor (AFL). Details the West Coast opposition toward Japanese American resettlement, including boycotts, terrorist incidents, and legal issues regarding ownership of property.
Date:: 1945 January 1-June 30
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Impounded People: Japanese Americans in the Relocation Centers

Description:: Report on constitutional issues involved in the forced removal process, the WRA's legal framework, and the organization of the Office of the Solicitor.
Date:: 1946
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Trek, v. 1 no. 1

Description:: Special publication of Reports Division, Central Utah Relocation Project (Topaz), compiled by camp incarcerees. Consists of short stories, essays, and a biographical sketch of Mine Okubo. Includes artwork by Mine Okubo.
Date:: 1942 January 12
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Quarterly report

Description:: Report includes chronology detailing incarceration process from 1941 December 7 to 1942 June 29 and gives brief descriptions of incarceration camp sites.
Date:: 1942 March 18-June 30
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Community Government in War Relocation Centers

Description:: Report on the development of internal governments run by incarcerees. Subjects include the problems and confusion surrounding the Poston Strike and Manzanar Riot, community organization, and the future of Japanese American communities.
Date:: 1946
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

Address. Dillon S. Myer. "The Facts About the War Relocation Authority"

Description:: Address by the Director of the WRA, before a luncheon meeting of the Los Angeles Town Hall, Los Angeles, CA.
Date:: 1944 January 21
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

The Evacuated People: A Quantitative Description

Description:: Report on the experiences of incarcerees at incarceration camps, moving, segregation, settling into camps, and resettlement.
Date:: 1946
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Collection of Material about Japanese American Incarceration
OpenUCLA Collections

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