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Title
Letter from War Relocation Authority, Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming to Edith Jennings, October 11, 1944
Creator
Robertson, Guy: author
United Sates. War Relocation Authority
Date Created and/or Issued
1944-10-11
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
All request for permission to publish must be submitted in writing to California State University, Sacramento, University Library, Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained. Further information available online: www.lib.csus.edu/scua
Description
Letter to Edith Jennings recognizing her work harvesting the crops and taking the census at Heart Mountain Incarceration Camp. From: Scrapbook-memoirs, Wyoming (sac_jenn_0001), page 7.
Edith Jennings, a 5th grade teacher at Heart Mountain Incarceration Camp, compiled a scrapbook of photographs, ephemera, notes, correspondence, student drawings, paintings, and stories, performance programs, sheet music, camp newsletters and bulletins, news clippings, and camp census reports from 1944-1945.
Type
text
Format
Scrapbooks; Correspondence
1 page, 10.5 x 8 inches, typescript
application/pdf
Identifier
sac_jenn_0011
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/56930
Language
English
Subject
World War II--Administration--War Relocation Authority
World War II--Incarceration camps
World War II--Incarceration camps--Food
World War II--Incarceration camps--Work and jobs
World War II--Incarceration camps--Facilities, services, and camp administration
Industry and employment--Agriculture--Farming
Identity and values--Women
Geographic communities--Wyoming
Place
Cody, Wyoming
Incarceration Camps--Heart Mountain
Source
California State University, Sacramento, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
Edith Jennings Heart Mountain Scrapbook

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