NARA API Catalog Queries for the WWII War Relocation Authority (WRA):¶
For example, you can open a NARA catalog URL that runs an API Catablog query showing all 106 Series under the records of RG 210 War Relocation Authority (WRA). The query returns JSON data which is displayed in the jsoneditoronline.org browser:
- "https://catalog.archives.gov/api/v2/records/parentNaId/537?parentNaid=537&abbreviated=true&limit=200"
where NARA ID 537 is the unique ID for RG210.
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Let's examine the NARA Catalog JSON next:¶
In [68]:
import requests
import json
response = requests.get("https://catalog.archives.gov/api/v2/records/parentNaId/537?parentNaid=537&abbreviated=true&limit=200",
headers={"Content-Type": "application/json",
"x-api-key": "API_KEY"})
data = response.json()
#print( data )
with open('data.json', 'w') as f:
json.dump(data, f)
count = data["body"]["hits"]["total"]["value"]
digObjs = 0
print( "Number of Series:", count )
print( "------------------------------------------------------------------------" )
for i in range(0, count):
result = data["body"]["hits"]["hits"][i]
fields = result["fields"]
record = result["_source"]["record"]
if record.get( "variantControlNumbers" ) is not None:
print( "SERIES", i, " - ", record["variantControlNumbers"][0]["number"] )
else:
print( "SERIES", i )
print( " - TITLE:\t\t", record["title"], ", ", record["inclusiveStartDate"]["year"], "-", record["inclusiveEndDate"]["year"] )
print( " - NARA ID:\t\t", record["creators"][0]["naId"] )
print( " - NUM Dig Objects:\t", fields["totalDigitalObjects"][0] )
digObjs = digObjs + fields["totalDigitalObjects"][0]
if record.get( "scopeAndContentNote" ) is not None:
print( "\nSCOPE & CONTENT NOTE:\n" )
print( record["scopeAndContentNote"] )
print( "\n------------------------------------------------------------------------" )
print( "\nTOTAL DIGITAL OBJECTS:", digObjs)
Number of Series: 106 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 0 - 802054 - TITLE: Solicitor's Opinions and Memoranda , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of memoranda and opinions of the Solicitor's Office in the War Relocation Authority's Headquarters in Washington, DC. The memoranda were usually directed to attorneys in the field offices and relocation centers. Sample topics included are notices of conferences; position descriptions, personnel matters and training; preparation of travel vouchers and other forms, and weekly reporting responsibilities; discussions of alien property and a summary of state laws concerning the circumstances under which aliens might own property; whether commercial enterprises in the centers were subject to income tax; rights of individuals enlisting in the military; renunciation of citizenship; and California's denial of hunting, sport, and commercial fishing licenses to internees. At the beginning of the opinions file, there is an "Index-Digest of Opinions Issued by the Office of the Solicitor." Opinions 1-7, "...on the Constitutional Power of the War Relocation Authority to Detain Evacuees for the Duration of the War, if it should Deem Such Detention to be Necessary," were "Strictly Confidential." Some of the topics addressed are the Selective Service; whether frozen funds could be used for educational purposes; the language of congressional appropriations; payment of transportation costs for Conscientious Objectors who were assigned to relocation centers; the applicability of state licensing laws for professionals relocated to the centers; censorship of photographs taken at the centers; and the legal basis for the organization of evacuee self-government at the relocation centers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 1 - NWDNS-210-CMB - TITLE: Minidoka Relocation Center , 1943 - 1945 - NARA ID: 10449515 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: Photographs of a wide variety of activities. There are only a few corresponding negatives. A few photographs of Heart Mountain. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 2 - A1 37-A - TITLE: School Transcripts , 1942 - 1945 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of transcripts for students enrolled in schools established in each of the War Relocation Authority (WRA) Centers and for those students who attended public schools in the community. The typical elementary school transcript contains the following information: name, date of birth, sex, name of parent or guardian, race, citizenship status, school from which the student came, the grade completed, the date of withdrawal, and a general evaluation of the student (superior, average, or inferior). Junior high school transcripts often include classes taken and grades earned, which is entered on the same form used for elementary school students. The typical high school transcript contains courses taken each semester with grades earned, teacher comments, and results of intelligence or aptitude tests. The elementary schools are located in Central Utah, Colorado River, Gila River, Grenada, Hart Mountain, Manzanar, Minidoka, Rohwer, and Tule Lake. The secondary schools are located in Central Utah, Colorado River, Gila River, Grenada, Hart Mountain, Jerome, Manzanar, Minidoka, Rohwer, and Tule Lake. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 3 - TITLE: Portland Branch Evacuee Property Files , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series documents the management and disposal of properties and goods as identified by the War Relocation Authority (WRA) as directed by Executive Orders 9102 and 9066. This series consists of correspondence, reports, and case files pertaining to the property of individuals, families, and businesses impacted by involuntary evacuation and relocation because of their foreign national status or Japanese ancestry. Nationalities include, but are not limited to German, Italian, and Japanese. Subjects covered include internment, military restricted areas, Civilian Exclusion Orders, Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA), U.S. Employment Service, Farm Security Administration, National Council of Catholic Women, Tire Rationing Board, and the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL). Some of the records are in Japanese. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 4 - 802054 - TITLE: Sailing Lists of Repatriates and Persons Returning to Hawaii , 1945 - 1947 - NARA ID: 10475914 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of passenger lists of individuals departing from various ports in the United States for resettlement in Hawaii or Japan. They include the person's name, age, sex, date of birth, place of birth, address or present location (usually a relocation center or detention facility), alien registration number, and status (Citizen, Internee, Voluntary Repatriation, Alien Enemy Repatriation, or Renunciation). For some individuals planning to settle in Hawaii, a proposed destination is included. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 5 - P 14 - TITLE: Subject Index to Japanese-American Newspapers , 1946 - 1947 - NARA ID: 10475914 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of an index to Japanese-American newspapers that were published outside of the Relocation Centers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 6 - 64 - TITLE: General Files Relating to the Resettlement Study , 1946 - 1947 - NARA ID: 10475914 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of a study undertaken in July 1946 by the War Agency Liquidation Unit of the Department of Interior at the request of the War Relocation Authority, with congressional approval. Its purpose was to analyze the effects of the evacuation on and the adjustment problems of the resettled Japanese-American evacuees. Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, and Seattle were chosen for intensive study, with supplementary studies made in the Santa Clara Valley, the Snake River Valley, and Salt Lake City. With the exception of Seattle, the program involved interviewing representative Japanese-Americans within these communities and the compilation of interview findings and data obtained from published sources to depict the range and character of adjustment. In Seattle the results of a survey conducted independently by two faculty members of the University of Washington were utilized. These records are primarily the daily, weekly, and final reports of the investigating staff sent to Robert M. Cullum, the director of the study, and in some instances, correspondence relating to various aspects of the problems faced by resettled evacuees, including economic adjustments, housing shortages, relations with the community, Issei-Nisei relationships, and reestablishment of Japanese social and religious institutions. A typed copy of the final study, "People in Motion," written by Robert M. Cullum, is part of this series. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 7 - 62 - TITLE: Evacuee Transfer Lists , 1942 - 1942 - NARA ID: 10471455 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of photostatic copies of lists of evacuees transferred from assembly centers to relocation centers, obtained by the Wartime Civil Control Administration for the War Relocation Authority's use. Each list contains the names of the assembly and relocation centers involved, and the name, age, sex, and occasionally, family number or assembly center number of each evacuee, and a memorandum of transmittal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 8 - 43 - TITLE: Evacuee Real Property Inventory Cards , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10509439 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of two sets of cards. The first set contains the following information on real property owned by evacuees: type of property (farm, commercial, or residential), names and addresses of the legal owners, location, gross acreage or size of lots, crops grown, type of soil, structures on the property, assessed valuation, transfers, and legal description. Also included in this series is a card index for property in California. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 9 - 45 - TITLE: Evacuee Contraband Property Inventories , 1944 - 1944 - NARA ID: 10509439 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of inventories or lists of prohibited articles confiscated from Japanese aliens. They fall into two classes: an itemized list of contraband stored at the Lyons Van and Storage Co., Los Angeles, with each entry containing the following information: tag number, name of evacuee, place confiscated, description of the article, lot number, and piece number; and individual forms for each item of contraband stored at the San Francisco Presidio, describing and evaluating the item, and giving the name and family number of the evacuee. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 10 - 49 - TITLE: Basic Family Cards for Evacuees , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of "Form WRA-95" cards that were retained at the relocation centers until all of the evacuee residents had left. A typical card contains the following information for each family: the name of the head of the family, the family number, the names of the family members and others in the household, their relationship to the head, their birth dates and birthplaces, their occupations or other status at the center, the family's address at the center, and records of family earnings and compensation at the center. This series does not include cards for the Jerome Relocation Center. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 11 - 1 - TITLE: Final Reports , 1946 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of printed and processed copies of the War Relocation Authority (WRA) final reports. They include the final report of the Director, which deals with the agency in its entirety, and reports prepared by the various WRA offices concentrating on particular aspects of the agency's program and operations, such as the evacuation process, the handling of evacuee property, community government in the centers, the relocation program, the postwar adjustment of the evacuees, the administrative development of the agency, and the legal and constitutional phases of its program. An account of the War Refugee Shelter at Fort Ontario, New York, is among the reports. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 12 - 2 - TITLE: Headquarters Basic Documentation Files , 1941 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10450058 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of materials that were selected from the files of headquarters divisions for the War Relocation Authority (WRA) library as part of the agency's basic documentation files. The records include correspondence with the relocation centers, other government agencies, Japanese-American organizations, churches, educational and social welfare groups, and private individuals; memoranda; telegrams; reports; agenda for and minutes of meetings of WRA officials and of private organizations; surveys; statistical materials; procedural, administrative, and informational WRA issuances; budgetary materials; forms; speeches; radio scripts; and newspaper clippings. They relate primarily to the functions and programs of the WRA, the administration and operation of the relocation centers, and resettlement of evacuees in communities outside of the centers. Among the subjects covered are: the handling of evacuee property, the leave program, the Tule Lake segregation policy, construction and industrial operations and agricultural production at the centers, the organization of community government, internal security problems, education and recreational activities, health and medical programs, Selective Service registration of center residents, and policies governing the resettlement of the evacuees. The series also includes material relating to the educational background and religious affiliations of the evacuees, the legality of various aspects of evacuation and detention, public attitudes toward Japanese-Americans prior to evacuation and during resettlement, the records of Nisei soldiers in the war, the WRA information program, and the Canadian-Japanese evacuation program. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 13 - 802019 - TITLE: Magazine Articles , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of a reference file of clippings, reprints, and abstracts of magazine articles relating to Japanese-Americans and the functions of the War Relocation Authority. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 14 - 25 - TITLE: Lists of Evacuees Transferred from, Remaining at, and Transferred to Tule Lake Segregation Center , 1943 - 1944 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of records of the Tule Lake Relocation Center which, in the summer of 1943 Tule Lake was set aside as a segregation center for evacuees who had requested repatriation to Japan, renounced their American citizenship, or were otherwise suspected of disloyalty to the United States. There are three types of lists including those for evacuees resident at Tule Lake prior to its designation as a segregation center who were not subject to segregation and therefore were transferred to other relocation centers; evacuees originally resident at Tule Lake who could be segregated and therefore remained there; and evacuees originally at other relocation centers who were selected for segregation and therefore were transferred to Tule Lake. A typical list entry includes the following information regarding the evacuee: name, family number, relationship to the head of the family, sex, age, date of birth, and place of birth. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 15 - 56A - TITLE: Reports , 1944 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10448985 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 16 - 802054 - TITLE: Publications , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series contains clippings, publications, press releases, newsletters, field bulletins, and other records issued by the War Relocation Authority. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 17 - 802019 - TITLE: Fixed Asset Inventories , 1942 - 1947 - NARA ID: 10475914 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of correspondence, reports, charts, and maps concerning the liquidation of War Relocation Authority centers. Included are inventories of surplus property following the closure of the camps; records concerning exceptions or discrepancies in the inventories of fixed assets (or real property), such as damaged property, utilities, irrigation and drainage ditches, and broken fences; and reports about military construction in the centers. At the end of the series, there are reports on property leased from public entities and private individuals outside of the relocation centers that were renovated and turned over to the Federal Public Housing Authority, which include costs of salvaging and restoring the property. There is also information about the El Segundo, Hawthorne, Magnolia, and Santa Monica Housing Projects, all located in California. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 18 - UD 9 - TITLE: Records Relating to Appointed Personnel , 1942 - 1945 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of application forms and correspondence relating to the appointment of officials. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 19 - A1 59 - TITLE: Social Data Registration Forms , 1942 - 1942 - NARA ID: 10471455 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: The forms were executed at the WCCA's initial processing centers for the Japanese evacuees, and provided a basic registration record of the WCCA operation. The forms contain the following information with respect to each evacuee family: address at the time of evacuation, the number of persons in the family moving and registering together, and the assigned family number. There is also the following information for each individual evacuee: name, relationship to the head of the family, sex, and physical condition. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 20 - NWDNS-210-CB - TITLE: Gila River Relocation Center , 1943 - 1945 - NARA ID: 10449165 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: Photographs of daily work, recreational, and ceremonial activities. Included are a considerable number of pictures of birth and discharge certificates, and funerals. There are more negatives than prints. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 21 - NWDNS-210-CG - TITLE: Granada Relocation Center , 1943 - 1945 - NARA ID: 10449167 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: Photographs agricultural, recreational, and educational activities and facilities at the Amache, Colorado Center. Included are photographs of woodcarvings and other arts and crafts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 22 - NWDNS-210-CMA - TITLE: Minidoka Relocation Center , 1943 - 1945 - NARA ID: 10449515 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: Photographs of a wide variety of activities. There are only a few corresponding negatives. A few photographs of Heart Mountain. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 23 - NWDNS-210-FS - TITLE: A Filmstrip Entitled "The Wrong Ancestors" , 1942 - 1945 - NARA ID: 10487974 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: The filmstrip show some activities of Japanese Americans before and during their relocation to camps during WWII. The filmstrip was made by the War Relocation Authority for informational purposes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 24 - 802054 - TITLE: Notices, Proclamations, and Laws , 1942 - 1945 - NARA ID: 10450058 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series contains documents relating to Japanese-Americans, and internal security measures. Included are Executive Order 9066, which established the Western Defense Command (WDC); and Executive Order 9102, which provided for the establishment of the War Relocation Authority (WRA). There are public proclamations regarding Japanese, Germans, Italians, and persons of Japanese descent living in designated military areas; regulations on the conduct of alien enemies in territories and dependencies; orders for the evacuation of Japanese residents of the West Coast and the WDC plans for conducting the operation; and records concerning discussions using military police at the relocation centers, and repatriation. There are also records relating to the creation of the Office of Alien Property Custodian and its functions and duties; a 1942 Treasury Department publication, "Documents Pertaining to Foreign Funds Control"; records concerning the transfer of the WRA to the Interior Department; and miscellaneous WRA statutes. Also included is a pamphlet, "Air Raid Protection Regulations," that was directed at residents in military zones. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 25 - P 8 - TITLE: Pacific Citizen Special Holiday Edition of Japanese Americans in American Life , 1948 - 1948 - NARA ID: 10441417 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This newspaper publication consists of articles, photographs, Japanese American Citizens' League notices of upcoming activities, classified advertisements, and "seasons greetings" advertisements from a variety of businesses and services. Some of the articles included are: "They Pierced the Silken Curtain"; "Grandpa and the Promised Land"; "The Nisei in Japan"; "He Fought Discrimination"; and "Japanese Language Schools". This series contains the original newspaper and a photostatic copy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 26 - 802054 - TITLE: Manzanar Relocation Center Reports on Fires , 1943 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10475914 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of quarterly reports on fire protection in the Manzanar Relocation Center. The records primarily concern the disastrous fires in warehouses 33, 34, and 35 that occurred on July 28, 1944. The fire protection reports concern the goals, organization of fire brigades, equipment, achievements, and problems that needed to be addressed to improve the safety of the residents. Although the cause of the warehouse fires remained undetermined, there are very detailed accounts of the loss of the buildings and the materials stored there. The files also contain claims for damage to personal property, with a summary of the amount owed to each individual and then a specific list of the item(s) lost and their separate value. There are also records concerning the investigation of the fire, which include eye-witness testimonies of residents, officials, and fire fighters; and numerous photographs of the firefighting efforts, bystanders, and property damage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 27 - 11 - TITLE: Newsletters Relating to Japanese-American Evacuees , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of English-language and bilingual newsletters issued by private individuals and organizations within the Japanese-American community, by church groups, and by organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Friends Service Committee, and the American Service Institute. They relate primarily to the evacuation and activities of the evacuees after their departure from the relocation centers, and to the civil rights problems they encountered at that time. Some army camp newspapers with news items on Nisei soldiers are incorporated into this series. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 28 - 12 - TITLE: Japanese-American Newspapers , 1942 - 1947 - NARA ID: 10475914 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of files of bilingual newspapers published for the Japanese-American (and, in one case, the Japanese-Canadian) community by commercial interests or by civic organizations within the community. For the most part, these newspapers were established after the departure of the evacuees from the relocation centers. The names of the newspapers, places of publication, and dates are as follows: "Colorado Times," Denver, Colorado, 1944-1946; "Denver Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) Bulletin," Denver, Colorado, 1946-1947; "Hokubei Shimpo," New York, New York, 1946; "JACL Reporter," Salt Lake City, Utah, 1946-1947; "New Canadian," Vancouver, British Columbia, 1942; "New Canadian," Kalso, British Columbia, 1942-1945; "New Canadian," Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1945-1947; "Nichi Bei Times," San Francisco, California, 1946-1947; "Nisei Weekender," New York, New York, 1946-1947; "Northwest Times," Seattle, Washington, 1947; "Oregon Nippo," Portland, Oregon, 1946-1947; "Pacific Citizen," Salt Lake City, Utah, 1942-1947; "Progressive News," San Francisco, California, 1947; "Rafu Shimpo," Los Angeles, California, 1946; "Rocky Shimpo," Denver, Colorado, 1946-1947; and "Utah Nippo," Salt Lake City, Utah, 1946-1947. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 29 - 16 - TITLE: Headquarters Subject-Classified General Files , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of correspondence, interoffice memoranda, reports, instructions, regulations, manuals, handbooks, bulletins, directories, forms, questionnaires, charts, graphs, press releases, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and governmental and private publications relating to the organization, functions, policies, procedures, and operations of the War Relocation Authority (WRA). The series also contains records designated "confidential" by the WRA including copies of letters, telegrams, and memoranda sent relating primarily to the relocation process, the entrance of some evacuees into military service, the renunciation of United States citizenship by others, the Tule Lake segregation policy, leave clearances, the revocation of the west coast exclusion order, the establishment of the Oswego (Fort Ontario) Refugee Shelter, and the liquidation of the War Relocation Authority (WRA). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 30 - 31 - TITLE: Handbooks , 1943 - 1945 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of 19 supplements to the Authority's Administrative Manual, each setting forth minutely detailed policy and procedural instructions concerning an operation or function of the War Relocation Authority that was more generally or briefly covered in the basic manual. The following are the titles (and subjects) of the handbooks: Accounting, Personnel Management, Property Control, Procurement, Supply, Procedures, Welfare, Education, Community Government, Health, Agriculture, Fire Protection, Motor Transport and Maintenance, Project Employment, Statistics, Mess Operations, Relocation, Leave, Center Closure, and Transfer Operations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 31 - 65 - TITLE: Office Files of the Director of the Resettlement Study , 1946 - 1947 - NARA ID: 10475914 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series contains records of Robert M. Cullum who served as director of the resettlement study undertaken in July 1946 by the War Agency Liquidation Unit of the Department of Interior at the request of the War Relocation Authority, with congressional approval, to analyze the effects of the evacuation on and the adjustment problems of the resettled Japanese-American evacuees. The files mainly consist of correspondence and a few copies of reports of staff workers relating mainly to the adjustment of the evacuees to both old and new communities in the resettlement process, and to the preparation of and comments on the resettlement study. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 32 - 4b2 - TITLE: War Relocation Center Yearbooks , 1943 - 1945 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of the high school yearbooks for students graduating from relocation camp schools. The yearbooks contain photographs of faculty, staff, and individual graduates; photographs and comments about clubs, sports, and other activities; and some student literature. The names of students in grades seven through eleven are included and accompanied by class photographs. The names and dates of the yearbooks for each location are listed below: Arizona: Gila River Butte High School, "Year's Flight," 1943-1945 Canal High School, "Rivulet," 1943-1945 Arizona: Poston Poston High School, "Post-Ano," 1944-1945 Miles E. Cary High School, "El Chaparral," 1943-1945 Parker Valley High School, "Campus Echoes," 1944-1945 Arkansas: Rohwer Rohwer High School, "The Pen," 1943 Arkansas: Jerome Denson High School, "Victoria," 1943-1944 California: Tule Lake Newell High School, "Aquila," 1943 Colorado: Grenada Amache High School, "Onlooker," 1943-1945 Idaho: Minidoka Hunt High School, "Memoirs," 1943-1945 Utah: Topaz Topaz High School, "Ramblings," 1943-1945 Wyoming: Heart Mountain Heart Mountain High School, "Tempo," 1944-1945 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 33 - 50 - TITLE: Final Accountability Rosters of Evacuees , 1944 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: The series consists of rosters created by each relocation center, listing all evacuees resident during the period of its existence. Typically, the following information is provided in each evacuee entry: name, family number, sex, date of birth, marital status, citizenship status, alien registration number, method of original entry (from an assembly center, other institutions, Hawaii, another relocation center, birth, and the like), date of entry, pre-evacuation address, center address, type of final departure (indefinite leave, internment, repatriation, segregation, relocation, or death), date of departure, and final destination. Each roster includes summary figures on evacuees resident at the center and total admissions and departures broken down by types. The following internment camps are included: Central Utah (Topaz), Colorado River (Poston), Gila River, Granada, Heart Mountain, Jerome, Manzanar, Minidoka, Rohwer, and Tule Lake. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 34 - 32 - TITLE: Blank Copies of Forms , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of blank copies of operational and administrative forms used by the War Relocation Authority. Instructions for use appear on some, but not all, of the forms. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 35 - 36 - TITLE: Job Descriptions , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of descriptions of all War Relocation Authority headquarters and field appointive positions. The typical description provides the following information regarding the position covered: title, grade, organizational and geographical location, duties, and minimum qualifications. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 36 - 39 - TITLE: Outgoing Correspondence , 1942 - 1942 - NARA ID: 10511654 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of copies of letters, memoranda, and telegrams sent to War Relocation Authority officials, other Government agencies, evacuees, and private individuals relating primarily to evacuation operations, the sale or lease of evacuee property, the collection of accounts and handling of other personal matters for the evacuees, storage of evacuee personal property, the operations and activities of the relocation centers, and matters of administrative management involving both the regional office and the relocation centers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 37 - 40 - TITLE: Subject-Classified General Files of the Field Assistant Director , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10509101 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, reports, lists, leases, plats, press releases, and newspaper clippings relating mainly to the War Relocation Authority's (WRA) cooperation with other Government agencies; the WRA's public relations and information program; legal procedures and problems, particularly with respect to evacuee property claims and the segregation program; the handling of evacuee property; the acquisition and lease of land for the relocation centers; matters of community management at the centers (community organization, government, education, health, housing, and utilities); center agricultural and industrial activities; employment opportunities for evacuees; the movement of evacuees in connection with relocation, seasonal leave, repatriation, internment, and segregation; and fiscal, personnel, and other administrative operations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 38 - 51 - TITLE: Internal Security Case Reports , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of narrative and form reports prepared by relocation center investigators, police officers, or directors of internal security, relating to cases of disorderly conduct, assault, theft, loss of property, and accidents at the centers. Each report includes the case number, the type of case or charge, the names and addresses of the persons involved, the time and place where the incident occurred, an account of the happening, and a statement of the actions taken by the investigating officer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 39 - 16A - TITLE: Field and Center Procedure Files , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of correspondence, interoffice memoranda, reports, instructions, regulations, manuals, handbooks, bulletins, directories, forms, questionnaires, charts, graphs, press releases, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and governmental and private publications relating to the organization, functions, policies, procedures, and operations of the War Relocation Authority. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 40 - 802054 - TITLE: Lists of Evacuee Properties Including Types of Property and Assessed Valuations in California Counties , 1942 - 1945 - NARA ID: 10476966 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of a summary file of the assessed value of farm and non-farm property owned by Japanese-Americans, with a comparison of the total acreage held by Japanese-Americans and by other residents of each county. The county files offer more detail about individual and corporate property assessments. The reports are grouped into three major categories. First is a summary of commercial property by general category. Some examples are apartment, boarding, or rooming houses; craftsman's shops; churches; food stores; laundries and dry cleaners; nurseries; and professional offices. The second group lists by individual names of the owners of residential property. These include residences, vacant lots, and farms. The farms are defined as fruit; fruit and truck; poultry and truck; rice; truck; truck and flower; and trunk and grain. The final group lists individuals who leased farms, the acreage, and the owner of the land. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 41 - siJapanese American Internment - TITLE: Records about Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II , 1988 - 1989 - NARA ID: 10457477 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series contains personal descriptive data about Japanese Americans evacuated from the states of Washington, Oregon, and California to ten relocation centers operated by the War Relocation Authority during World War II in the states of California (Tule Lake and Manzanar Centers), Idaho (Minidoka Center), Utah (Central Utah Center), Colorado (Granada Center), Arizona (Colorado River and Gila River Centers), Wyoming (Heart Mountain Center), and Arkansas (Rohwer and Jerome Centers). Each record represents an individual and includes the name; relocation project and assembly center to which assigned; previous address; birthplace of parents; occupation of father; education; foreign residence; indication of military service, public assistance, pensions, and physical defects; sex and marital status; race of evacuee and spouse; year of birth; age; birthplace; indication of the holding of an alien registration number and/or Social Security Number, and whether the evacuee attended Japanese language school; highest grade completed; language proficiency; occupations; and religion. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 42 - NWDNS-210-CL - TITLE: Tule Lake Relocation Center , 1944 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10447067 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: Photographs of daily activities such as education, agriculture, religious ceremonies, and recreation. Of particular interest are a considerable number of pictures of pro-Japanese internees and activities, including raids by internal security forces and the repatriation of many to Japan. Also shown are investigations of criminal activities including suicides by hanging. The photographers were R.H. Ross, Jack Iwata, J.D. Bigelow, and others. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 43 - NWDNM(m)-210 - TITLE: Motion Picture Films , 1939 - 1945 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 44 - P 13 - TITLE: Index to Publications, Speeches, Radio Scripts, Conferences, and Reprints , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 45 - 3 - TITLE: Headquarters Basic Documentation Reports , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of drafts and published copies of the War Relocation Authority (WRA) annual, semiannual, and quarterly reports; typed copies of semiannual reports of headquarters divisions and sections; and typed copies of histories of the WRA and of its Construction and Maintenance Section. These materials, selected as part of the agency's basic documentation files, cover almost every aspect of the Authority's policies, programs, operations, and organization. More specifically, they relate to the legal aspects of exclusion, detention, evacuee relocation, and center liquidation; statistical and other research work; the promotion of WRA programs; and matters relating to relocation centers such as evacuation of Japanese-Americans from designated military areas, establishment of the centers, agricultural production, business enterprises, evacuee employment, construction and maintenance operations, community government, fire protection, educational and recreational activities, internal security organization, disorders at the projects, liquidation of the centers, and relocation of the evacuees. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 46 - 4 - TITLE: Minidoka Publications , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10475914 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of copies of the "Minidoka Irrigator," a newspaper published by and for the residents of the Minidoka Relocation Center. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 47 - 4 - TITLE: Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter Records , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists primarily of correspondence; memoranda; reports, including final reports; minutes of meetings; administrative and instructional issuances; statistical documentation; Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter publications (newspapers and bulletins); and press releases relating to the establishment of the Shelter, the reception of the refugees; life at the Shelter; the attitudes of the refugees and the townspeople of Oswego, and the liquidation of the Shelter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 48 - 7 - TITLE: Issuances of Other Federal Agencies , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of reference files containing pamphlets, bulletins, reports, operational manuals, serial instructions, press and informational releases, statistical tabulations, and other issuances of Federal agencies other than the War Relocation Authority (WRA) concerning, to a greater or lesser extent, the evacuation and relocation functions of the WRA with respect to persons of Japanese, German, or Italian lineage. The issuances are in printed, processed, and typed formats. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 49 - 18 - TITLE: General Outgoing Correspondence , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of copies of letters, telegrams, and memoranda sent primarily to staff members, other Government agencies, members of Congress, and private organizations and individuals. They relate mainly to War Relocation Authority (WRA) administrative and personnel matters; cases involving the constitutionality of the evacuation and relocation program; programs and events at the relocation centers; relationships between the Issei, Nisei, and Kibei; evacuee contributions to the war effort; resettlement problems such as housing, employment, and attitudes of resident populations; closing the centers; evacuee claims for lost or damaged properties; and the establishment, operation, and closing of the Oswego (Fort Ontario) Refugee Shelter. Copies of WRA administrative instructions are also in this series. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 50 - 30 - TITLE: Index to Revisions of the Administrative Manual , 1943 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of cards containing the following information about revisions to the Authorities' Administrative Manual: the subject, date of revision, office of origin, and the specific subsection superseded. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 51 - 22 - TITLE: Evacuee Case Files , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of case files of Japanese aliens and Japanese American residents on the West Coast who were interned in relocation centers maintained by the War Relocation Authority (WRA) during World War II. The centers were in the states of California (Tule Lake and Manzanar Centers), Idaho (Minidoka Center), Utah (Central Utah Center), Colorado (Granada Center), Arizona (Colorado River and Gila River Centers), Wyoming (Heart Mountain Center), and Arkansas (Rohwer and Jerome Centers). Most of the case files consist of personal history records (individual interview record and basic family fact sheet), that provide detailed information about the evacuee such as: name, names of individual and family members, birthplace, birth date, religion, marital status, educational accomplishment, linguistic ability, employment history, military service record, previous addresses (including any abroad), dates of entrance into assembly and relocation centers, and parents' and relatives' names and countries of origin. The files also contain health records (hospital, dispensary, and dental); property records (property lists and bills of lading); relocation center occupational records (employment and earning record cards); leave records; applications for leave clearance; recommendations of leave clearance boards; notices of leave action to applicant; short-term and work leave papers; and related correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, and teletypes. In addition, the case files may contain some or all of the following types of documents: school records; medical social service case histories; death notices; funeral arrangement papers; requests for center storage of property and release of contraband; receipts for property issued to and received from evacuees; records of evacuee property sales; transcripts of leave clearing hearings; petitions to join or reunite with families in alien enemy internment camps; requests and withdrawals of requests for repatriation or expatriation; notices of repatriation action; and refusals of offers of repatriation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 52 - NWDNS-210-CH - TITLE: Heart Mountain Relocation Center , 1943 - 1945 - NARA ID: 10449340 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: Photographs of a wide variety of activities. There are prints for only about 50 of the negatives. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 53 - NWDNS-210-CR - TITLE: Rohwer Relocation Center , 1943 - 1944 - NARA ID: 10446892 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: Photographs primarily of recreational and educational activities. The photographer was Fred Yamaguchi. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 54 - NWDNS-210-CT - TITLE: Topaz Relocation Center , 1943 - 1945 - NARA ID: 10487851 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: Photographs of a wide variety of activities including agriculture; religion; recreation; education; personnel; and the visit of an investigating committee from the Utah state legislature. The photographers were R.A. Bankson, E.W. Conrad, and others. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 55 - A1 57 - TITLE: Voluntary Evacuee Change of Residence Cards , 1942 - 1942 - NARA ID: 10471455 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: These cards (Form PM-1, "Change of Residence Report Card") were submitted by persons of Japanese descent who moved from their former residences during the voluntary migration phase of the Wartime Civil Control Administration program. They include the following information for each individual: name, previous address, new address or destination, sex, age, race, citizenship, and alien registration number. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 56 - 802054 - TITLE: Administrative Notices , 1943 - 1945 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of memoranda on a variety of topics issued by the Washington Headquarters Office of the War Relocation Authority. One sub-series is titled "Emergency Instructions," which are interpretations of various regulations for particular situations. Other materials include teletype message confirmations and forms concerning education and vocational training, the role of the community analyst, photographing significant activities, and the circumstances under which internees could leave - temporarily or permanently - the relocation centers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 57 - 802054 - TITLE: List of Changes in Names, Etc., Relating to Evacuees , 1945 - 1945 - NARA ID: 10476966 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of corrections to errors and additions of subjects (sex and citizenship) to information previously collected by the Western Defense Command. Some of the included corrections are for case numbers, duplicate records, names, and addresses. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 58 - 802054 - TITLE: Daily Fire Logs , 1943 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of registers of the daily activities of fire departments located at relocation centers (Granada, Hart Mountain, Manzanar, Minidoka, Central Utah, and Rohwer). These registers, normally kept by a senior officer, includes recorded information by date and time of day. The most common entry is change of shift and officers in charge. Other topics include: requisitions, repair, and maintenance of equipment; installation of sprinkler systems; inspections of facilities; recruitment and enlistment in the fire brigades; training and drills; school visits to the fire departments; demonstrations of equipment and speeches to promote fire prevention; false alarms; and fires. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 59 - P 11 - TITLE: Index Cards Chronicling Events , 1942 - 1945 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of brief, typed (1942-1944), summaries of events or activities of the War Relocation Authority. Beginning in 1945, similar information was handwritten on the cards. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 60 - P 12 - TITLE: Index to Reports, Memoranda, and Other Papers , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 61 - NWDNC-210-RCD - TITLE: Drawings of Relocation Centers , 1942 - 1945 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of drawings and plans of War Relocation Authority internment centers. Included are drawings of buildings and structures and site, facility, and utility plans. Drawings exist for the following centers: Central Utah (Topaz), Utah; Colorado River, Arizona; Fort Ontario Refugee Shelter, New York; Granada, Colorado; Gila River, Arizona; Heart Mountain, Wyoming; Jerome, Arkansas; Manzanar, California; Minidoka, Idaho; Rohwer, Arkansas; and Tule Lake, California. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 62 - TITLE: Sound Recordings Relating to the Relocation of Japanese-Americans During World War II , 1944 - 1945 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 63 - NWDNS-210-CC - TITLE: Colorado River Relocation Center , 1942 - 1945 - NARA ID: 10469754 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: Photographs of daily work and recreational activities at the Poston, Arizona site. Prints of the construction of facilities, for which there are no negatives, are filed numerically from 26720-31155 in boxes 1 and 2. There are more negatives than prints (especially under the letter heading "WA") for subjects other than "Construction." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 64 - 55 - TITLE: Subject-Classified General Files , 1944 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10448985 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists primarily of correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, program reports, minutes of meetings, transcripts of telephone conversations and of special hearings, statistical tabulations, directives and regulations, refugee registers, petitions, press releases, and newspaper clippings relating to the establishment and organization of the Refugee Shelter at Fort Ontario, in Oswego, New York. It contains information concerning policies and procedures involved in its administration and operation; its relation to other Government agencies; its public relations program; special problems of the residents; community activities in the areas of health, education, recreation, and religion; the repatriation of some of the residents; and the closing of the Shelter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 65 - 42 - TITLE: Subject-Classified General Files , 1942 - 1945 - NARA ID: 10509439 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of correspondence, memoranda, narrative and statistical activity reports, bills of lading, press releases, and newspaper clippings relating to the War Relocation Authority program for handling evacuee property, particularly with respect to the sale and lease of real property, operation of evacuee farms, rental and other monetary collections on behalf of the evacuees, property loss claims, and storage and shipment of evacuee goods. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 66 - 4 - TITLE: Relocation Center Records , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of area office records. They are primarily final reports of the area and district offices, area office publications and issuances (bulletins, news letters, press releases, notices, and similar materials), and news clippings relating to various aspects of resettlement planning and operations; employment opportunities and housing conditions in communities, public acceptance of the evacuees and community participation in resettlement, attitude of the evacuees toward resettlement, and the organization and administration of the area and district offices to aid in resettlement. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 67 - 20 - TITLE: General Outgoing Correspondence to Relocation Centers , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of copies of letters, memoranda, and telegrams sent from headquarters to the relocation centers, primarily relating to administrative and personnel matters; various phases of center operations (purchasing supplies, food production, construction activities, educational programs, and the like); the Tule Lake segregation program; relocation planning; and the closing of the centers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 68 - 28 - TITLE: Relocation Statistics , 1943 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of statistical form reports issued at regular intervals by the Statistics Section and the Relocation Planning Division relating to departures, leave, and resettlement, and the military service of evacuees. They include the following: weekly leave reports by centers showing type of leave, net change in population, and remaining population; semi-monthly reports summarizing the destination of evacuees who returned to the west coast by state, county, and city of destination; weekly and monthly reports on terminal departures from centers by state of final destination; semi-monthly reports on the number of evacuees on indefinite leave by relocation area, state, and principal cities; semi-monthly reports on the number of persons leaving the centers on indefinite leave by dependents, citizenship, sex, and type of work; weekly seasonal leave reports by centers showing the county of destination; weekly reports on the number of Selective Service inductees and volunteers; and semi-monthly reports on reported casualties among soldiers of Japanese ancestry by location of next of kin and source of information, and by state, county, and city of pre-evacuation address. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 69 - TITLE: Local Photographic Files of Relocation Centers , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of photographs from War Relocation Authority relocation camps including Gila River, Colorado River, Heart Mountain, Tule Lake, Rohwer, and Topaz among others. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 70 - 802054 - TITLE: Reports, Statements, Circular Letters, Correspondence, and Other Records , 1942 - 1948 - NARA ID: 10475914 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of miscellaneous records of the War Relocation Authority (WRA) Headquarters in Washington, DC. Included are confidential field reports, policy statements compiled by the Historical Section of the Reports Division; circular letters; correspondence with railroad companies and others concerning transportation and purchase orders; and segregation materials. The confidential field reports include policies and procedures relating to the registration of Japanese Americans, evacuation, and establishment of relocation camps. There are copies of correspondence with the War Department, the Western Defense Command, the Department of the Interior, and the Department of Justice. There is a file containing 89 circular letters, which includes a list of the number and subject for each circular. The topics include employees' drivers licenses; sanitary regulations and procedures; funerals; standards and details for the construction of Japanese Reception Centers; visits to the projects by soldiers of Japanese descent; using the labor of Japanese aliens in the production of war goods; directives for sampling coal; rationing; cooperation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and the disposition of kitchen grease. The segregation materials include a "Manual of Evacuee Transfer Operations." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 71 - 947602 - TITLE: Records Concerning Refugees and Displaced Persons during World War II , 1944 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10463846 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of policy statements and copies of cables relating to Executive Order 9417, issued by Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 22, 1944, concerning the situation of refugees and displaced persons during World War II. The first volume contains materials relating to the "Cooperation with Other Governments." It contains a historical summary of international relations; general instructions to United States Missions scattered around the world; and specific correspondences with members of the United Nations, including governments-in-exile, neutral Europe, Latin America, and other countries (ranging from Afghanistan to Finland). The second volume focuses on "Programs and Documents." Some of the topics included are relief projects; the Red Cross; the situation of Jews in various countries; abandoned children; passports; "Temporary Havens"; permanent settlement; halting persecution; budgets; and cooperation with private agencies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 72 - 802054 - TITLE: Budget Estimates , 1943 - 1948 - NARA ID: 10475914 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of correspondence, justifications for expenses, and detailed budget estimates for all aspects of staffing the relocation centers. Each estimate begins with a brief chart that lists the grade, title, number of positions, "man years" (full time equivalent), salary base, and overtime. This is followed by a detailed list of the number of employees in each of four major divisions as follows: 1) Project Management Division (Clerical, Administrative, and Fiscal; Attorney's Office - Legal Section; Employment Section; and Reports Division); 2) Community Management Division (Office of the Project Director; Business Enterprises Section; Education Section; Community Activities Section; Community Analysis Section; Health Section; Internal Security Section; and Welfare Section); 3) Operations Division (Office of the Assistant Project Director; Engineering Section; Fire Protection Section; Industry Section; Motor Transport and Maintenance Section; and Agricultural Section); and 4) Administrative Management Division (Office of the Assistant Project Director; Finance Section; Supply Section; Office Services Section; Evacuee Property Section; Statistics Section; and Personnel Section). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 73 - UD 6 - TITLE: Office Files of Miss Lou Butler, Head Counselor of the Welfare Section of the Community Management Division at the Colorado River Relocation Center , 1942 - 1945 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of publications, such as booklets, yearbooks, and copies of the camp newspaper; copies of circular letters; monthly and annual reports; a welfare handbook; orientation procedures; and other miscellaneous materials. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 74 - NWDNS-210-CFZ - TITLE: Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter at Oswego, New York , 1944 - 1945 - NARA ID: 10448985 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: In accordance with a plan announced by President Roosevelt in June 1944 , 982 men, women and children were selected from the refugee camps in southern Europe and brought to this shelter for the duration of the war. Pictured here are their arrival; facilities and personnel; and various activities, especially recreation. These photographs were taken by Hikaru Iwasaki (1 through 112) and Gretchen Van Tassel (113-230). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 75 - TITLE: San Francisco Branch Evacuee Property Files , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series documents the management and disposal of properties and goods as identified by the War Relocation Authority (WRA) as directed by Executive Orders 9102 and 9066. This series consists of correspondence, reports, and case files pertaining to the property of individuals, families, and businesses impacted by involuntary evacuation and relocation because of their foreign national status or Japanese ancestry. Nationalities include, but are not limited to German, Italian, and Japanese. Many of the documents produced at the Los Angeles Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank were believed to have been incorporated into this collection while under the physical control of the San Francisco Branch. Numerous forms were triplicate, filed separately, and there may be multiple copies of a record within this series. Subjects covered include internment, military restricted areas, Civilian Exclusion Orders, Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA), U.S. Employment Service, Farm Security Administration, and the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL). Some of the records are in Japanese. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 76 - 52 - TITLE: Index to Internal Security Cases , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: Although varying from center to center in the amount of information contained, the cards typically indicate for each case its number, type, the names of the principals, and a synopsis of the facts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 77 - 54 - TITLE: Relocation Center Construction Specifications , 1942 - 1944 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of copies of War Department specifications for the construction of relocation centers, including specifications for buildings, roads, sanitary sewers, sewage treatment plants, pumping stations, and water reservoirs. The War Department's procurement schedules for equipment for the centers accompany the specifications. Engineers' field books and the level books for the Manzanar Relocation Center are included. Within this series is a copy of the permit granted to the War Relocation Authority by the United States Army Engineer Corps for the use and occupancy of Fort Ontario, with an attached report on the physical condition of the buildings, grounds, and equipment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 78 - 33 - TITLE: Headquarters Account Control Books , 1943 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of general ledgers containing accounts for unallotted appropriations, reserves, and cash disbursements; allotment ledgers recording allotments issued to relocation centers; and registers showing authorizations of allotments of funds, expenditure transactions, obligations incurred and liquidated, and unexpended balances. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 79 - 48 - TITLE: Subject-Classified General Files of the Relocation Centers , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of records from individual relocation centers of the War Relocation Authority. Typically, a relocation center general file consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, agenda and minutes of meetings, statistical tabulations, administrative and procedural issuances, maps and plats, speeches, articles, and press releases relating to the establishment, organization, operation, maintenance, and closure of the center. More specifically, it pertains to fiscal, personnel, and other administrative matters; the handling of evacuee property; legal problems; repatriation and the Tule Lake segregation policy; the public relations program; matters of community management (civic organization and government, education, religion, recreation, health, public safety, housing, and welfare); agricultural production and marketing; community industrial enterprise; center and outside employment; and relocation planning. Materials relating to the investigation of the centers by the Dies Committee are also part of this series. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 80 - 23 - TITLE: Evacuee Summary Data Cards , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of computer punch cards for Japanese aliens and Japanese American residents on the West Coast who were interned in relocation centers maintained by the War Relocation Authority (WRA) during World War II. A typical card contains the following information concerning the individual evacuee covered: (a) name, individual number, last permanent address, date of entrance into relocation center, relocation center address, miscellaneous notations, and (b) codes for information relating to place and date of birth, sex, marital status, religion, highest school grade attained, language schools attended, languages spoken, occupations, assembly center address, residence in Japan (if any), extent of education in Japan (if any), parents' birthplaces, and father's occupations. The (a) items are typed or written, while the (b) group is punched in code. The following internment camps are included: Central Utah (Topaz), Colorado River (Poston), Gila River, Granada, Heart Mountain, Jerome, Manzanar, Minidoka, Rohwer, and Tule Lake. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 81 - NWDNS-210-G - TITLE: Central Photographic File of the War Relocation Authority , 1942 - 1945 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: Under the authority of Executive Order 9066, issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, approximately 110,000 Japanese-Americans were interned in 10 relocation centers for the duration of World War II. Professional photographers, including Dorothea Lange, were commissioned by the WRA to document the daily life and treatment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. These photographs show Japanese-Americans at home and at work immediately prior to evacuation; evacuees at assembly centers were they were processed before being assigned to relocation centers; agricultural, vocational, educational, recreational, religious and internal political activities at each of the ten relocation centers, supervisory personnel and local officials; Nisei resettled in their former homes or at work after releases from a relocation center; Nisei servicemen and women at awards ceremonies or on leave; the arrival and departure of evacuees who were transferred from one of the relocation centers to the Tule Lake Segregation Center in September 1943, including a few photographs of repatriated Japanese-Americans embarking for Japan; property formerly owned by Japanese-Americans, but vandalized, deserted, or taken over by Chinese-Americans and others. Prints and negatives are fully captioned. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 82 - 6 - TITLE: Nonserial Informational Issuances , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of issuances of the following types, in printed and processed forms: text of statements, speeches, lectures, and radio broadcasts; press releases; informational pamphlets and leaflets for the evacuees and the general public; and bibliographies. Occasionally, there are draft copies of the issuances, and correspondence and memoranda relating to their preparation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 83 - 10 - TITLE: Index to Magazine Articles , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of an index to clippings, reprints, and abstracts of magazine articles relating to Japanese-Americans and the functions of the War Relocation Authority. There are three cards for each article, filed by author, title, and magazine. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 84 - 17 - TITLE: Headquarters Security-Classified General Files , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of correspondence with other Government agencies and copies of other agency correspondence transmitted to the War Relocation Authority (WRA) for informational purposes, memoranda, reports (chiefly other-agency), and lists relating primarily to the exclusion operations in the west coast military areas; loyalty investigations of evacuees; secret organizations, pressure groups, and gangsterism in the relocation centers; internal security safeguards and disturbances at the centers; the Federal Bureau of Investigation's study of the relocation centers; incidents arising from the registration of evacuees for military service; employment of evacuees in war plants and military installations; and the evacuation of the Japanese in Hawaii and Alaska. Biographical data and background material on the Oswego (Fort Ontario) refugees is included in this series. All of these records initially bore the security designations of "restricted," "confidential," or "secret." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 85 - 24 - TITLE: Institutionalized Evacuee Cards , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of records of persons under War Relocation Authority jurisdiction who were confined to such institutions as general hospitals, mental hospitals, tuberculosis sanitariums, and orphanages. Some entered these institutions from the relocation centers; others had been admitted before evacuation occurred. A typical card contains the following information regarding the individual covered: name, family number, alien registration number, date of birth, age, marital status, citizenship, pre-evacuation address, name and type of institution, dates of admission and release, types of release, and destination after release. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 86 - 27 - TITLE: Population Statistics , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of statistical form reports prepared either by the relocation centers or by headquarters. The types of reports include daily reports on the assembly and relocation centers giving the size of the resident population and the number of admissions and departures for each of the centers (WCCA forms TSO-1 and TSO-2, and forms WRA 31 and WRA 176); weekly reports for the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter with information on the resident population, vital statistics, departures, and visitors to the Shelter (form WRA-386); quarterly summaries of relocation center resident population giving information on age groups and marital status by sex and citizenship (form WRA-321 for the quarterly periods ending March 31, June 30, and September 30, 1945, only); and summary tabulations of the live births, deaths, marriages, and divorces reported at each relocation center from its inception. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 87 - 63 - TITLE: Basic Documentation Files on Temporary Havens in the United States , 1945 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10463846 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series contains 11 files of documents of various types, including correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, cables, reports, speeches and statements, statistical tabulations, copies of Executive orders, photographs, and newspaper clippings which were accumulated or assembled by the War Refugee Board (WRB). The materials document the origins of the idea of a temporary haven for European displaced persons in the United States, the establishment of the Oswego Shelter for this purpose, the evacuation of the selected refugees from Italy, community life at the Shelter, public reaction to the refugee program, and the WRB's supervision of the War Relocation Authority's management of the Shelter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 88 - A1 61 - TITLE: Vital Statistics for Persons of Japanese Ancestry , 1942 - 1942 - NARA ID: 10471455 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: The records in this series are photostatic copies of birth, stillbirth, and death certificates for persons of Japanese descent, which were furnished to the Wartime Civil Control Administration by the Departments of Public Health of California, Oregon, Washington, and Arizona. The records in part two do not include statistics for Arizona. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 89 - A1 60 - TITLE: Tabulation Summaries , 1942 - 1942 - NARA ID: 10471455 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: Part one consists of a tabulation of the total number of Japanese evacuated from the exclusion area to the various assembly and relocation centers under each of the civilian exclusion orders. Part two consists of a list of evacuee family numbers with the related exclusion order and the destination indicated for each. Part three consists of a list of evacuee family numbers with the name of the head of family, the number of persons in each family, and the point of origin of evacuation indicated for each. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 90 - NWDNS-210-CA - TITLE: Manzanar Relocation Center , 1942 - 1945 - NARA ID: 10449513 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: Miscellaneous photographs showing educational facilities and activities; war veterans; agricultural activities; and general scenes. Only two (2) of the prints and negatives (5 and 134) match. Most are not captioned. There are 25 prints and 15 negatives. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 91 - NWDNS-210-CFK - TITLE: Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter at Oswego, New York , 1944 - 1945 - NARA ID: 10448985 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: In accordance with a plan announced by President Roosevelt in June 1944, 982 men, women and children were selected from the refugee camps in southern Europe and brought to this shelter for the duration of the war. Pictured here are their arrival; facilities and personnel; and various activities, especially recreation. These photographs were taken by Branko Kaufmann. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 92 - A1 62-A - TITLE: Visitor's Index Cards , 1942 - 1942 - NARA ID: 10487974 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of West Coast Defense Command forms (STAT-7, "Visitor's Index Cards") that contain information that was abstracted from the register (TSO-5) all visitors, except administrators and vendors, were required to sign to gain admittance to the assembly centers. Each card provides the name, city of residence, purpose of visit, whether bringing a parcel or contraband, the name of the person visited, assembly center, date, and sheet number of the register. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 93 - 5 - TITLE: Serial Informational Issuances , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series contains copies of publications issued by the War Relocation Authority (WRA). The "Facts About America Series" is undated and consists of descriptive pamphlets regarding 18 American regions, states, and cities prepared to assist the evacuees in the relocation centers to select places for resettlement. The pamphlets provide, for each area covered, summary information on its history, geography, climate, population origins, industry, commerce, agriculture, employment opportunities, and educational, religious, and health facilities. Many of the pamphlets appear in a Japanese as well as English version. The "WRA Information Digest" (originally "Digest of Information") was dated May 1942 - October 1945. It was a semimonthly (later monthly and finally bimonthly) house publication for WRA staff. It contains articles contributed by staff members and news notes concerning program and administrative problems, policies, and activities of the agency. The "Reports Roundtable" subseries was dated March 1943 - October 1945. It consists of newsletters issued irregularly but frequently by the Reports Division in Washington for the information and guidance of field officials, chiefly the field reports officers. The newsletters relate to WRA policies, procedures, and operations in connection with the agency's information and documentation programs. The "Project Press Release" subseries was dated February 1943 - December 1945. These news reports were irregularly but frequently issued for publication in relocation center newspapers. They relate to developments at the centers, elsewhere within the WRA, or in the outside world affecting the evacuees or of special interest to them. The "Fighting Nisei" subseries is undated and consists of dispatches from United States Army field correspondents regarding the activities of Nisei units and individuals on the fighting fronts. It was released by the War Department for publicity use by the WRA staff. The "Weekly Press Review" subseries was dated January 1943 - September 1944. It consists of weekly summaries of newspaper and magazine news reports, feature articles, and editorials having some bearing on the functions of the WRA. The items in each issue included subject headings such as: Congressional relations, public attitudes, reports, relocated evacuees, military service, legal, repatriation, employment, agriculture, education, and community enterprises. The "Daily News Digest" subseries was dated September 1944 - December 1945, and served as a continuation of the "Weekly Press Review" on a daily basis. However, it did not include a subject organization of the individual items. The "Favorable Clippings" subseries was dated February 1943 - April 1945. It was issued irregularly but frequently and contains groups of reprints of newspaper articles and photographs relating to the life of the evacuees in the relocation centers, their resettlement in various parts of the country during the latter years of the war, local reactions thereto, and the military record of the Nisei. The "Feature Clip Series" was dated April - October 1945. It was issued irregularly and contains reprints of individual newspaper articles and accompanying photographs relating to Nisei military achievements and resettlement by former evacuees. The "Reference Service" subseries was dated February - October 1944. It was issued irregularly and contains compilations of quotations from miscellaneous sources (including newspaper articles, radio broadcasts, military communiques, and private correspondence) reflecting favorably on the Japanese-American. It was prepared for publicity use by field officials. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 94 - 4b - TITLE: Records Relating to Internment Camps , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, publications, and other records that constitute the basic documents of War Relocation Authority internment camps. The records include organization charts, blueprints and plans, statistical materials, directives and other procedural issuances; official and private publications (including camp, school, and church newspapers); news releases, speeches, and press clippings; and final reports for each center. Some of the records are in Japanese. The records document all phases of relocation center activities, such as: agricultural production; formation of cooperative enterprises; community government; legal services; health and medical programs; educational, religious, and recreational activities; evacuee employment, housing and mess operations; fire protection; internal security problems; the Tule Lake segregation program; induction of residents into the armed forces; placement and re-settlement of evacuees; post-war liquidation of the centers; and other administrative matters. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 95 - 56 - TITLE: Refugee Case Files , 1944 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10448985 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of case records for the residents of the Emergency Refugee Shelter at Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York. A typical file contains an application for admission to the Shelter, an identification chart with photographs, biographical data, a social case study, health records, and employment data. Correspondence concerning complaints and special problems is also included. For those who desired to remain in the United States permanently, there are interrogation reports and supplementary information forms. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 96 - 38 - TITLE: Subject-Classified General Files , 1942 - 1942 - NARA ID: 10511654 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, reports, agreements, bulletins, directives, orders and instructions, lists and press releases relating to the organization, staffing, and functions of the regional office; the relationship of the War Relocation Authority (WRA) with other Government agencies; the WRA's information and public relations program; public reaction to evacuation and relocation; the movement of evacuees to assembly and relocation centers; the storage of evacuee property; the acquisition of land for and the construction of the relocation centers; personnel, fiscal, procurement, and other administrative operations of the centers; various phases of life and activity at the centers (formation of community government, agricultural and industrial production, and provisions for internal security, recreational and educational facilities, and community and health services); opportunities for relocation; and offers of private employment for evacuees. The series also contains correspondence with the Spanish consul, who represented the interests of the Japanese Government. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 97 - 41 - TITLE: San Francisco Press Digests , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10509101 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of summaries of news items, articles, and editorials that appeared in west coast newspapers and other periodicals relating to evacuation activities, events in relocation centers, the resettlement of the evacuees, evidence of discrimination against Japanese-Americans, and Japanese mistreatment of prisoners of war. The digests were prepared originally by the San Francisco Regional Office and later continued by the Office of the Field Assistant Director in that city. The titles of these issues varied: "Daily Press Review," "Review of West Coast Newspaper Items," "Weekly Review of West Coast Newspaper Items," "Monthly Review of West Coast Newspaper Items," "News Highlights," "Tabulation of News Clippings," and "Digest of West Coast Newspaper Items." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 98 - 47 - TITLE: Subject-Classified General Files of the Relocation Offices , 1943 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series contains records of the War Relocation Authority (WRA) area offices located in Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Seattle. It consists of general files of correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, reports, minutes of meetings, press releases, radio scripts, newspaper clippings, bulletins, and circulars relating to the WRA program for resettling evacuees in nonrestricted areas of the United States. They typically cover subjects such as the information and public relations aspects of the relocation process; cooperation with other Government agencies and private organizations in aiding evacuees; relocation opportunities with regard to employment and housing; legal and financial aid to evacuees in support of their resettlement; community attitudes toward them; shipment of evacuee property; and the organization and administration of the area and district offices. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 99 - 58 - TITLE: Master Index of Evacuees , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10471455 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: The series consists of copies of index cards for each evacuee who was sent to one of the 15 temporary assembly centers under the authority of the Western Defense Command's Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA). The cards were to follow each person until the individual was either transferred to the jurisdictional control of the War Relocation Authority or was voluntarily evacuated or released to a private address outside of the designated military exclusion areas. WCCA Form Stat-5 provides the following information for each evacuee: name, age, sex, place of birth, family number, alien registration number, occupation, name of nearest relative, previous address, and assembly center address. A procedural manual on the use of the cards is at the beginning of the series. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 100 - 4 - TITLE: Assembly Center Newsletters , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of Assembly Center records, and contains primarily official reports, press clippings, and assembly center newspapers relating to reactions of the Japanese community regarding evacuation, public attitudes toward the Japanese in the evacuated areas, and conditions at assembly centers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 101 - 4 - TITLE: Manzanar Publications , 1942 - 1945 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of copies of the "Manzanar Free Press," a publication by and for the residents of the Manzanar Relocation Center. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 102 - 8 - TITLE: State and Local Government and Private Publications , 1942 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of a reference file of publications of state and local governments, research, educational, social welfare, civil liberties, church, other private organizations, and private individuals. Included are printed or mimeographed pamphlets and leaflets. Subjects include the following: pre-evacuation conditions in the Japanese-American community, the impact of the war on it, wartime ethnic relations and tensions, the process of evacuation, conditions in the relocation centers, return to the evacuated areas, and relocation elsewhere in the country. There are also several publications of the province of British Columbia concerning the treatment of the Japanese in Canada during World War II. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 103 - 21 - TITLE: General Outgoing Correspondence to Area and District Relocation Offices , 1943 - 1946 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of copies of letters and telegrams primarily relating to the problems facing the evacuees in the process of resettlement after release from the relocation centers. Subjects covered include housing, employment, adult and vocational education, War Relocation Authority legal and financial aid and assistance in opening markets for farm produce, Reconstruction Finance Corporation loans, return of stored property and seized contraband goods, and attempts to repeal local discriminatory legislation. The correspondence also relates to relocation office administrative matters. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 104 - 26 - TITLE: Individual Exclusion Case Files , 1942 - 1945 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of files which document the War Relocation Authority's (WRA) function of assisting in relocating elsewhere in the continental United States persons other than Japanese or Japanese-American evacuees who had been determined to be security risks and therefore to be removed from sensitive domestic military areas by the several Army defense commands. For the most part, these "excludees" were German and Italian aliens or American citizens of German and Italian heritage. The files document assistance rendered by the WRA, where needed, by facilitating the settlement of property problems arising from the exclusion action, and by providing such funds as were required to defray transportation, housing, and maintenance costs in the initial stages of relocation. If further assistance became necessary, the matter was referred to the proper public welfare authorities, including the Bureau of Public Assistance of the Social Security Board. The case file for an individual "excludee" may contain all or some of the following documentation: identification papers; personal history report; exclusion order; report on disposition of property; request for, notice of, and receipt for a WRA assistance grant; notice referring request for additional assistance to regional Social Security Boards and state welfare authorities; notice of suspension of the exclusion order; and related administrative reports, memoranda, and correspondence. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SERIES 105 - 29 - TITLE: Administrative Manual , 1943 - 1945 - NARA ID: 10488150 - NUM Dig Objects: 0 SCOPE & CONTENT NOTE: This series consists of a compilation of administrative instructions constituting a comprehensive statement of the elements of policy and procedure for all activities of the War Relocation Authority. Superseded instructions as well as those current at the termination of the agency are included. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TOTAL DIGITAL OBJECTS: 0
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