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Title
Manzanar and its purpose
Creator
Honda, Mary: author
Date Created and/or Issued
1943-01-30
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
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Description
Assignment by Mary Honda for period II History class taught by Mr. Harry Bentley Wells, a teacher at Manzanar High School. Mary describes the reason for being at Manzanar and the need to do everything possible to make Manzanar as home-like as possible. Safety and avoiding further unhappiness from the thoughts of war are the reasons she identified for being at Manzanar. She hopes that people will make the most of the situation and everyone should cooperate to make something they can be proud of. Transcription is found in item: ecm_wells_9027.
Collection of documents and ephemera from Harry Bentley Wells, teacher at Manzanar War Relocation Center High School and Shirley Elizabeth Wells, registered nurse (R.N.) at Manzanar War Relocation Center. This collection includes correspondence, memos, reports, student papers, grade book, commencement program, prom invitation, and other memorabilia from the eleven months H. Bentley Wells was employed at Manzanar.
Type
text
Format
Essays
1 page, 11 x 8.5 inches, handwritten, damaged
application/pdf
Identifier
ecm_wells_0027
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/36210
Language
English
Subject
World War II--Incarceration camps--Education
Education--Secondary education
World War II--Incarceration camps--Impact of incarceration
Place
Manzanar, California
Incarceration Camps--Manzanar
Source
Eastern California Museum
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
Harry Bentley Wells and Shirley Elizabeth Wells Collection

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