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Description
Letter from Edith Jennings to her family informing them of her decision to teach 5th grade at Heart Mountain Incarceration Camp, Wyoming. In it, she provided additional information about camp's geographical location in Wyoming, weather, employment details, and living conditions. From: Scrapbook-memoirs, Wyoming (sac_jenn_0001), page 1. 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.
World War II--Incarceration camps--Education Education--Primary education Industry and employment--Educators World War II--Incarceration camps--Facilities, services, and camp administration World War II--Incarceration camps--Housing--Barracks World War II--Incarceration camps--Living conditions Geographic communities--Wyoming Identity and values--Women Race and racism--Cross-racial relations
Place
Cody, Wyoming Incarceration Camps--Heart Mountain
Source
California State University, Sacramento, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
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