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Title: Out of the Desert
Alternative Title: U.S. Junior Red Cross Album : Out of the Desert.
Contributor: Backus, Edythe N., 1897-, collector
Date Created and/or Issued: 1943
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Pacific Rim
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: An album of letters, poetry, essays and illustrations assembled by the Japanese-Americans students at Poston.
The Colorado River Relocation Center, established by the United States War Relocation Authority in May 1942, confined Americans of Japanese descent who were required to leave their homes during World War II. Edythe N. Backus volunteered to go to Poston as a teacher and collected materials related to life in the Center which now make up this collection.
Identifier: mssCoRivRe
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll12/id/3248
Language: English
Subject: Colorado River Relocation Center, Arizona
United States. War Relocation Authority
Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945--Sources
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Arizona--Poston
Poston (Ariz.)--History--Sources
Source: Colorado River Relocation Center records, 1942-1945.
Folder Oversize 1
Pacific Rim, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Gift of Edythe N. Backus, 1948.

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