17 items
17 items

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Information Release No. 31: Inquires from Evacuees (ddr-densho-356-793)
Memo to all residents of Merced Assembly Center from Harry L. Black, Center Manager regarding sending inquires about family members detained by Immigration and Naturalization to the proper government agency.

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Information Release No. 26: Regulations Governing Evacuee Advisory Committee (ddr-densho-356-787)
Memo to all residents of Merced Assembly Center from Harry L. Black, Center Manager regarding the Wartime Civil Control Administration's policy on evacuee advisory committees. Details the committee's formation, function and powers.

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Evacuation of Merced Assembly Center (ddr-densho-356-794)
Instructions for internees at Merced on the camp wide transfer to Topaz.

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Memo from Harry L. Black, Assistant Project Director, to Willard E. Schmidt, Chief of Police, re: disorders in Block #54, June 2, 1944 (ddr-csujad-2-83)
Discusses imprisonment in the stockade of 12 incarcerees and tension concerning the Japanese Language Schools and the schools in the camps, detailing what it terms "terrorist tactics" on the part of the Japanese Language School's proponents and concluding that the Project Director is justified in using the stockade for disciplinary purposes. The document also includes the …
![Memo from Harry L. Black, Advisory Committee, to Mr. [Raymond R.] Best, February 8, 1944 (ddr-csujad-2-91)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/99/94/999459383d93bcf40af45ee69118aea9.jpg)
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Memo from Harry L. Black, Advisory Committee, to Mr. [Raymond R.] Best, February 8, 1944 (ddr-csujad-2-91)
Memorandum regarding meeting with Co-ordinating Committee. Concerns meeting to discuss Committee's recommendation to release "18 additional detainees from the stockade." The memo on "Executive Office of the President, Office for Emergency Management" letterhead, also discusses employment of incarcerees from Manzanar and Tule Lake and moving incarcerees out of and into various housing blocks. See this object …

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Information Release No. 22: Issue of Clothing (ddr-densho-356-785)
Memo to all residents of Merced Assembly Center from Harry L. Black, Center Manager regarding clothing allotments for internees.

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The Newell Star, Vol. I, No. 8: Extra (April 22, 1944) (ddr-densho-284-13)
Selected article titles: "Meyer Approves Formation of Representative Committee" (p. 1) and "Black Announces First Step Towards Committee Selection, Arrangements Body to Be Formed" (pp. 1-2).

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Information Release No. 21: Social Security Benefits for Evacuees (ddr-densho-356-784)
Memo to all residents of Merced Assembly Center from Harry L. Black, Center Manager regarding Social Security Benefits for internees. Advises that Internees who meet the federal requirements for Old Age and Survivors' Insurance can apply or update their address with the Social Security Board in Stockton, California.

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Letter to Harry L. Black from E. Sandquist regarding status of students requesting to attending inland universities (ddr-densho-356-789)
Letter to Harry L. Black, Merced Assembly Center Manager from E. Sandquist, Chief Operations Section Wartime Civil Control Administration. Sandquist informs that the inland universities have been submitted for approval to the War Department and Navy Department and are pending formal approval.

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Letter from US Public Health Services to Merced Assembly Center regarding the sale of contraceptives (ddr-densho-356-786)
Letter from W. T. Harrison, Senior Surgeon and Director of District # 5 with U.S. Public Health Services in San Francisco to Harry L. Black, Manager of Merced Assembly Center. The letter discusses the availability of contraceptives and venereal prophylactics to internees, and advises Merced make these items available to residents and provide medical guidance on …

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Studio portrait of the Miwa family (ddr-densho-475-2)
Black and white studio portrait of the Miwa family in a dark green cardboard portrait case with an art deco border. At the bottom of the portrait in pen, "Cook's Studio Hollister Cal" and on the back written in pencil, "The Miwa Family L. to R. Back Tama Miwa Nobukichi Miwa L. to R. Front Mae …

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Court Upholds Curfew on Japs (April 15, 1942) (ddr-densho-56-756)
The Seattle Daily Times, April 15, 1942, p. 19

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Merced Commencement Program (ddr-densho-356-775)
Program for a Commencement ceremony at Merced Assembly Center.

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Progress report: content (ddr-csujad-40-2)
The progress report contains Dave and Roy's report about the Information Field Offices at the Manzanar incarceration camp. The report is written by several authors and covers field offices, voluntary service corps, office supplies, family reunion applications, personnel, lost and found department, resident's directory, and letters for residents. Included are: Progress Report on the information service …

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Baseball team photo (ddr-densho-475-729)
Black and white photograph of Horsehiders baseball team. Identified left to right, back row: Carl Peterson and Lloyd Perry. Middle row: Leonard Caetano, George Gulli, Harry Sakae, James Ito, Frank Miwa, and Ray Sakae. Front row: Tony Gulli and Joe Gulli. Written below the photograph on the album page is: "'Horsehiders' of '37-'38 4 wins-1 defeat" …

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Divisions and Personnel at Merced Assembly Center (ddr-densho-356-777)
Booklet that lists staff in each division at Merced Assembly Center.