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Title
Letter from the Lemuel B. Schofield, Special Assistant to the Attorney General to the Immigration and Naturalization Service, April 28, 1942
Creator
Schofield, Lemuel B. (Lemuel Braddock), 1892-: author
Clark, Mary Frances: compiler
Date Created and/or Issued
1942-04-28
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
All requests 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
Correspondence from Lemuel B. Schofield to the Immigration and Naturalization Service regarding "instructions concerning the treatment of enemy alien detainees." Covers humane treatment, quarters, sanitation, exercise and fresh air, food, clothing, bedding, canteens, work, recreation, religious service, visitors, internal relations, censorship, money and valuables, discipline, medical care, civil processes, death and burial, and posting of the Geneva Convention. From Mary F. Clark's scrapbook, "Before I Forget, 1942-1947" page 4. See also sac_jaac_1334 through sac_jaac_1529.
The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications.
Type
text
Format
Scrapbooks; Correspondence
11 pages; 10.5 x 8 inches, typescript
application/pdf
Identifier
sac_jaac_1335
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/36510
Language
English
Subject
World War II--Department of Justice camps
World War II--Incarceration camps--Medical care and health issues
Place
District of Columbia
Crystal City, Texas
Department of Justice Internment Camps--Crystal City
Source
California State University, Sacramento, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
Japanese American Archival Collection

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