Title Info UC Los Angeles, Special Collections, Young Research Library: Manzanar War Relocation Center Records
Alternative Title Info Online Archive of California (OAC)
Calisphere
Name Aquifer submitter California Digital Library brian.tingle@ucop.edu Brian Tingle
administrator California Digital Library brian.tingle@ucop.edu Brian Tingle
Associated Project Aquifer American Social History Online http://www.diglib.org/aquifer/
Type Of Resource text
still image
Genre Books and pamphlets
text
Photographs / slides / negatives
image
Newspapers
Origin Info Completely irregular
California 94612 United States California Digital Library [Academic library]
Language eng
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Abstract The Manzanar War Relocation Center was located in the Owens Valley in Central California. The United States Army initially established the camp as the Owens Valley Reception Center under the management of the Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA), March-May 1942. On June 1, 1942, Manzanar was reconstituted as a War Relocation Authority (WRA) center. Its peak population was 10,121, and the majority of its internees came from pre-World War II Japanese American communities in the Los Angeles basin. The collection consists of files collected and maintained by Ralph Palmer Merritt (Director of the Japanese Relocation Center at Manzanar, California) including files of the Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA), the War Relocation Authority (WRA) records and correspondence from April 1942-December 1945, a history of the Manzanar Center (5 volumes), daily records of the Block Managers, Ralph Merritt's office files, and a two volume index of all evacuees at Manzanar. There are also books, clippings, copies of the Congressional Record, reprints of committee hearings, and magazines documenting the history of Japanese and Japanese Americans in the United States and their internment and military service, photographs and photographic negatives documenting activities and people at Manzanar, and approximately 170 photographs by Ansel Adams of the Manzanar War Relocation Center on 14 x 18 inch mats. The collection also contains copies of various newspapers and printed materials such as the Manzanar Free Press.
Subject Modern (1701-present)
World War II
Asian Americans
States and Regions
Social Studies--State history
Social Studies
American Culture
Identifier http://dlf.grainger.uiuc.edu/DLFCollectionsRegistry/Collection/71003
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Record Info Records originated with the DLF Newsletter, 2000-2005, from which they were converted into a FileMaker database. The FileMaker DB was imported into a database system currently maintained by the Grainger Engineering Library Information Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Records for collections added after 2005 were created in this database as part of the Aquifer American Social History Online project. This database is currently being maintained as part of the Aquifer American Social History Online project. 2008-04-23 eng English Digital Library Federation (DLF) oai:dlfcollectionsregistry.grainger.uiuc.edu:71003
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