Amy Kasai pictorial works depicting life in Japanese American internment camps.

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Amy Kasai pictorial works depicting life in Japanese American internment camps.

ca. 1935-ca. 1955, bulk 1942-1943

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Paintings, prints and drawings by Amy Kasai, documenting her experiences in Japanese-American internment camps during World War II. Works depict internees, camp grounds, and surrounding landscapes at the Fresno Assembly Center, Tule Lake Relocation Center, and Jerome Relocation Center (Arkansas). Also includes fine art works. Photographs depict Kasai, her family and other unidentified Japanese-Americans before, during and after internment. Also includes War Relocation Authority administrative manuals, reports, and other paperwork, as well as related papers, all of which may pertain to various duties performed at the internment camps.

2 boxes (ca. 185 drawings, prints, paintings and photographic prints) : color and b&w ; 46 x 30 cm or smaller.

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Jerome Relocation Center (Ark.)

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Tule Lake Relocation Center

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World War II and its subsequent effects on the American nation permeated every aspect of the lives of the country's people. Although virtually everyone was touched in some respect by the war, perhaps no people, as a group, were affected more than the Japanese-Americans living in the far western states. Both aliens and American citizens of Japanese ancestry became the victims of the distrust and fear generated by both civilians and military personnel along the Pacific Coast. Viewed a...

Fresno Assembly Center (Fresno, Calif.)

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United States. War Relocation Authority

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From 1942 to 1946, Edward H. Spicer, Anthropology professor at the University of Arizona, was Head of the Community Analysis Section of the War Relocation Authority, in Washington, D.C. From the description of United States War Relocation Authority collection, 1942-1947. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 29305373 Biography / Administrative History On February 19, 1942 President Roosevelt signed Executive Order ...

Kasai, Amy.

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