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War Relocation Authority Documents Collection (ddr-densho-282)
Collection War Relocation Authority Documents Collection (ddr-densho-282)
The Government Documents collection is comprised of reports and studies published by the War Relocation Authority. The bulk of the items are focused on the lives and treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-282/
Relief map depicting camp location (ddr-densho-37-411)
img Relief map depicting camp location (ddr-densho-37-411)
Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Picture of relief map showing location of Manzanar, War Relocation Authority Center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry, in Owens Valley, California, which is flanked in background by the High Sierras and in foreground by Mount Whitney, loftiest peak in the United States.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-411/
Administrative notice, no. 23 (August 11, 1942) (ddr-csujad-42-157)
doc Administrative notice, no. 23 (August 11, 1942) (ddr-csujad-42-157)
An issue of "Administrative notice" circulated in the Santa Anita Assembly Center. It instructs the incarcerees to register, who own rentable properties used for dwelling accommodations in the defense-rental areas. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: tak_01_79_001
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-42-157/
Voucher for per diem and/or reimbursement of expenses incident to official travel, Form 10-1664a, Harry Bentley Wells (ddr-csujad-48-70)
doc Voucher for per diem and/or reimbursement of expenses incident to official travel, Form 10-1664a, Harry Bentley Wells (ddr-csujad-48-70)
Voucher for per diem and/or reimbursement of expenses incident to official travel for Harry Bentley Wells. He escorted Messrs. F. Tayama, K. Higashi, J. Masaoka out of and back into military areas by traveling with them to Reno, NV on 11/27/42 and 11/29/42. Transcription is found in item: ecm_wells_9070. See this object in the California State …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-48-70/
Memorandum from Elmer Rowalt, Acting Director, War Relocation Authority, to all employees of the War Relocation Authority, January 16, 1943 (ddr-csujad-48-126)
doc Memorandum from Elmer Rowalt, Acting Director, War Relocation Authority, to all employees of the War Relocation Authority, January 16, 1943 (ddr-csujad-48-126)
Memorandum to all employees of the War Relocation Authority highlighting the War Bond savings program and the push to have 90% of employees pledge 10% of their salary and reminding employees that their salaries have been increased by the overtime bill passed by Congress. (6-4069-BU-COS-WP). Transcription is found in item: ecm_wells_9935. See this object in the …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-48-126/
Community analysis report, no. 8, January 28, 1944 (ddr-csujad-19-58)
doc Community analysis report, no. 8, January 28, 1944 (ddr-csujad-19-58)
This issue is titled as Japanese Americans educated in Japan. The document describes about what happened to the children who grew up in California for a while, then went to school in Japan and finally returned back to California. It emphasizes on what effect did living and growing up in two such different places have on …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-19-58/
Community analysis report, no. 5, June 1943 (ddr-csujad-19-4)
doc Community analysis report, no. 5, June 1943 (ddr-csujad-19-4)
Titled as: Evacuee resistance to relocation. Presents three "fundamental reasons" for the "relocation program" designed to encourage people to move out of the incarceration centers, then describes the "ideal relocation program," which would see "every one relocated before June 30, 1944." Provides statistics on numbers of people who left centers on indefinite leave in April and …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-19-4/
Community Analysis Notes, no. 1, January 15, 1944 (ddr-csujad-2-84)
doc Community Analysis Notes, no. 1, January 15, 1944 (ddr-csujad-2-84)
Titled as: From a Nisei who said "No." Account by an unnamed Community Analyst at Manzanar of the "life experience and viewpoints" influencing a young man's "No" response to the Army registration form's Question 28. The account stems from the analyst's notes, reproduced verbatim, from an exchange between the young man and the Hearing Board authorized …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-2-84/
Visitors pass no. 8780, WRA-38, George Naohara (ddr-csujad-38-557)
doc Visitors pass no. 8780, WRA-38, George Naohara (ddr-csujad-38-557)
A visitors pass issued by O.D. Walters, Project Director. It authorizes George Nobuo Naohara of Utah to visit the Jerome camp in Arkansas and to be inducted to Block 8-10-E on December 3, 1945. WRA-38. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nao_05_13_009
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-38-557/
Offers of employment to residents of Jerome Relocation Center in relation to their previous skills (ddr-csujad-55-19)
doc Offers of employment to residents of Jerome Relocation Center in relation to their previous skills (ddr-csujad-55-19)
Report on the skills and experience of incarcerees in regard to current job vacancies. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_00022
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-19/
Letter from C.E. Zimmer, Chief, Agriculture, War Relocation Authority, to whom it may concern, April 30, 1943 (ddr-csujad-55-2175)
doc Letter from C.E. Zimmer, Chief, Agriculture, War Relocation Authority, to whom it may concern, April 30, 1943 (ddr-csujad-55-2175)
Correspondence from C.E. Zimmer to Whom it May Concern regarding George Hideo Nakamura's loyalty to the United States and recommendation for a job. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2277
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-2175/
Letter from Corine Key, Acting Relocation Advisor, Rohwer Relocation Center to Mr. Hideo Ted Kadokawa, January 23, 1945 (ddr-csujad-55-1231)
doc Letter from Corine Key, Acting Relocation Advisor, Rohwer Relocation Center to Mr. Hideo Ted Kadokawa, January 23, 1945 (ddr-csujad-55-1231)
Correspondence from Corine Key, Acting Relocation Advisor to Hideo Ted Kadokawa regarding an appointment to discuss plans for "resettlement." See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1233
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1231/
Work control (ddr-csujad-55-2402)
doc Work control (ddr-csujad-55-2402)
Work control form for George Hideo Nakamura. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2508
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-2402/
Letter from W.W. Lessing, Relocation Officer, War Relocation Authority, to Mrs. George H. Nakamura, November 25, 1945 (ddr-csujad-55-2450)
doc Letter from W.W. Lessing, Relocation Officer, War Relocation Authority, to Mrs. George H. Nakamura, November 25, 1945 (ddr-csujad-55-2450)
Correspondence from W.W. Lessing to Dorothy Nakamura regarding grants for former incarcerees returning to their former homes after World War II. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2556
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-2450/
Memo from Leave Section to Dorothy Hart Nakamura, April 2 (ddr-csujad-55-2422)
doc Memo from Leave Section to Dorothy Hart Nakamura, April 2 (ddr-csujad-55-2422)
Memorandum of understanding from Clara Bogorad to Mrs. George Nakamura [= Dorothy Nakamura] regarding indefinite leave from Tule Lake incarceration camp. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2528
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-2422/
Final report: Community Activities Section (ddr-csujad-55-1856)
doc Final report: Community Activities Section (ddr-csujad-55-1856)
Report on the Community Activities Section at Poston incarceration camp. Includes organization of the Community Activities Section, relation to other sections and evacuees, personnel, recreational facilities and equipment, historical development of the program, individual programs, financing, center closing, and colophon. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1859
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1856/
Letter from Elmer L. Shirrell, Relocation Supervisor, to George Hideo Nakamura, December 22, 1943 (ddr-csujad-55-2394)
doc Letter from Elmer L. Shirrell, Relocation Supervisor, to George Hideo Nakamura, December 22, 1943 (ddr-csujad-55-2394)
Letter from Elmer L. Shirrell to George Hideo Nakamura regarding the form, "Request for Transportation of Property" Form WRA 156. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2500
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-2394/
Tri-county irrigation project in south central Nebraska (ddr-csujad-55-97)
doc Tri-county irrigation project in south central Nebraska (ddr-csujad-55-97)
Report on the tri-county irrigation project in south central Nebraska including a description of the location, project organization, soils, climate, transportation, markets, housing, schools and churches, and community. Report also includes a description of the types of offers used when appealing to and recruiting incarceree farmers including year-round farm labor, share cropping, co-partnerships, and profit sharing. …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-97/
Community analysis report, no. 10 (October 28. 1944) (ddr-csujad-55-1660)
doc Community analysis report, no. 10 (October 28. 1944) (ddr-csujad-55-1660)
Report on "labor relations in relocation centers." Covers dynamic factors in labor relations including role of a center community in labor relations, influence of economic and social status on labor problems, influence of evacuee-staff relations on labor problems, and influence of informational policies on labor problems; patterns of labor crisis including immediate causes and area flare-ups, …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1660/
Letter from R.E. Tracy, Supervisor, Sacramento-San Joaquin Area, to George H. Nakamura, May 15, 1944 (ddr-csujad-55-2429)
doc Letter from R.E. Tracy, Supervisor, Sacramento-San Joaquin Area, to George H. Nakamura, May 15, 1944 (ddr-csujad-55-2429)
Correspondence from R.E. Tracy to George Hideo Nakamura regarding a Government Bill of Lading. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2535
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-2429/
Notice from Duncan Mills, Project Director, Poston, to the residents of Poston, January 12, 1945 (ddr-csujad-55-1683)
doc Notice from Duncan Mills, Project Director, Poston, to the residents of Poston, January 12, 1945 (ddr-csujad-55-1683)
Notice from Duncan Mills to incarcerees at Poston incarceration camp regarding closure of the centers. Covers financial assistance, advisory assistance, appointments for interviews, and leave regulations. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1685
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1683/
Community analysis note, no. 2 (February 29, 1944): Engagement and marriage customs in a relocation center (ddr-csujad-55-334)
doc Community analysis note, no. 2 (February 29, 1944): Engagement and marriage customs in a relocation center (ddr-csujad-55-334)
Report on Japanese engagement and marriage customs before and during incarceration. Includes a description of marriage traditions and complications during incarceration. Community Analysis Notes No. 2. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0336
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-334/
Former occupation of evacuees (ddr-csujad-55-20)
doc Former occupation of evacuees (ddr-csujad-55-20)
List of occupations and the number of individuals who held each occupation prior to being incarcerated. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_00023
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-20/
Memo from Elmer L. Shirrell, Relocation Supervisor, War Relocation Authority, to all project directors, December 31, 1943 (ddr-csujad-55-797)
doc Memo from Elmer L. Shirrell, Relocation Supervisor, War Relocation Authority, to all project directors, December 31, 1943 (ddr-csujad-55-797)
Memorandum of understanding from Elmer Shirrell to All Project Directors regarding job vacancies in the Chicago area for incarcerees. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0799
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-797/
Community analysis report, no. 3 (March 1943) (ddr-csujad-55-1657)
doc Community analysis report, no. 3 (March 1943) (ddr-csujad-55-1657)
Report, "Japanese groups and associations in the United States," on Japanese social, economic, religious, and nationalistic groups and associations in the United States. Covers Kenjinkai or prefectural associations, Junior Kenjinkai, Nihonjinkai or Japanese associations, Seinenkai or young people's societies, Fujinkai or women's societies, Japanese Chambers of Commerce, hotel associations, California Farmers Association, Japanese Labor Association, Ko …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1657/
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