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Description
School essay on Heart Mountain Incarceration Camp written by a student in Mrs. Davis' (Jennings) 5th Grade class at Heart Mountain Elementary School, Heart Mountain Incarceration Camp, Wyoming. The student offers their perceptions of Heart Mountain, and a description of Heart Mountain Incarceration Camp barracks, mess halls, laundries, clinics, hospital, medical personnel, and schools. In: "Letters from Heart Mountain Summer 1945" pocket. From: Scrapbook-memoirs, Wyoming (sac_jenn_0001), page 25. 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; Essays 1 page, 11 x 8.5 inches, handwritten application/pdf
World War II--Incarceration camps--Education Education--Primary education World War II--Incarceration camps--Arts and literature Arts and literature--Literary arts--Essays Geographic communities--Wyoming World War II--Incarceration camps--Food World War II--Incarceration camps--Housing--Barracks World War II--Incarceration camps--Living conditions World War II--Incarceration camps--Facilities, services, and camp administration World War II--Incarceration camps--Medical care and health issues Identity and values--Children Identity and values--Family
Place
Cody, Wyoming Incarceration Camps--Heart Mountain
Source
California State University, Sacramento, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
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