Mary Norton Clapp Library

In August 1942, Occidental College President Remsen Bird wrote to College Librarian Elizabeth McCloy, requesting that the Library gather and collect materials related to the Japanese American internment. For the next few years McCloy and her staff honored this request, forming the Japanese Ameridcan Relocation Collection.

The collection was held in closed stacks in the Special Collections department and remained largely untouched until 2004, when Occidental College received a grant to preserve, digitize, and distribute a selection of the letters, materials and newspapers in the collection. For more about the administrative history of the collection and other information, consult the finding aid for Online Archive of the Japanese American Relocation during World War II website.

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