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Japanese American Relocation Resource Guide
Below is a list of resources on Japanese American Relocation. Finding aids for the manuscript and
photograph collections and more detailed information can be found at the Arizona Historical Foundation.
Manuscript Collections
Wade Head Collection-MSS 118
This collection includes correspondence, notes, speeches, and essays relating to the War Relocation
Authority (WRA) camps in general and specifically to the one in Poston, AZ. Wade Head was the director
of the Colorado River War Relocation Center (known as Poston) from 1942-1944. Of interest in the
collection is original artwork by the internees and a movie about the construction of the camp.
Frances and Mary Montgomery Collection-MSS 7
Frances and Mary Montgomery were teachers at Butte High School located at the Gila River Relocation
Center. This collection includes correspondence with former students, class information, and newspaper
articles.
Photographs
Wade Head Photograph Collection-FP HEA 1-109
The photography collection includes 109 photographs including buildings at the Poston Relocation Center,
events, school life, and construction of the facility.
Frances and Mary Montgomery Photograph Collection-FP MONT 1-235
This collection includes 235 photographs of buildings, school activities, and functions at the Gila River
Relocation Center.
Books
D 769.8.A6 I65 1994
D 769.8.A6 U52x 1946
Ten visits : brief accounts of visits to all ten Japanese American relocation
centers of World War II, relocation recollections, the struggle for redress,
human relations and other essays by Frank and Joanne Iritani, 1994.
WRA: A story of human conservation by the United States War Relocation
Authority, 1946.
D 769.8.A6D37 1993
Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II by Roger
Daniels, 1993.
D 753.8.O38 1999
Storied Lives: Japanese American Students and World War II by Gary Y.
Okihiro, 1999.
Books Continued
D 769.8.A6 J364 1991
Japanese Americans: From Relocation to Redress, edited by Roger
Daniels, Sandra C. Taylor, and Harry H.L. Kitano, 1991.
D 769.8.A6 F48 1943
The First Year: Story of the Red Cross in Poston, published by the
American Red Cross, 1943.
D769.8.A6 A5 1946
Impounded People: Japanese Americans in Relocation Centers, by the
United States Department of the Interior, War Relocation Authority, 1946.
D 769.8.A6 A14x 1992
50th Anniversary Canal Camp Reunion 1942-1992, published by Reunion
Committee, 1992.
D 769.8.A6 U5x 1946
Wartime Exile: The Exclusion of the Japanese American From the West
Coast by the United States Department of the Interior, War Relocation
Authority, 1946.
D 769.8.A6 U498x 1946
The Relocation Program by the United States Department of the Interior,
War Relocation Authority, 1946.
D 769.8.A6 U496x 1946
The Evacuated People: A Quantitative Description by the United States
Department of the Interior, War Relocation Authority, 1946.
D 769.8.A6 U495x 1946
Community Government in War Relocation Centers by the United States
Department of the Interior, War Relocation Authority, 1946.
D 769.8.A6 U493x 1946
Administrative Highlights of the WRA Program by the United States
Department of the Interior, War Relocation Authority, 1946.
D 769.8.A6 T73x 1997
Transforming Barbed Wire: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans in
Arizona During World War II edited by Thomas Nakayama, 1997.
Videos/Movies
Poston Relocation Camp Film, 1942, Wade Head Collection MSS 118
This is a silent, color film that highlights the construction of the camp and arrival of internees. To view the
film, please see the archivist for a DVD copy.
Additional Resources
Japanese American National Museum
http://www.janm.org/exhibits/
• Current ongoing exhibit called “Common Ground: The Heart of the Community” which chronicles
130 years of Japanese American history beginning with the Issei pioneers through WWII
incarceration to the present.
University of Arizona Library, Special Collections
http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/branches/spc/homepage/index.html
• War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona, 1942-1946: Approximately 40 images depicting life
at Poston and Gila River internment camps.