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Title
Letter from Katharine Luomala, Asst. Head, Community Analysis Section, to J. R. [Ralph] McFarling, December 11, 1945
Creator
Luomala, Katharine: author
Date Created and/or Issued
1945-12-11
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
Notice regarding copyright of materials available online: http://www4.csudh.edu/libarchives/services-policies/index
Description
Praises McFarling's letter of October 22, 1945 for its thorough description of the situation in the state of Washington, and mentions that her office in Washington, DC is sorting out reports sent in from the sections in the various centers. The letter also mentions a report, "Annotated Bibliography of our Trend Reports"; states that they are working on a final report on "the first period of center life," which they have called "The Settling Down Period," encompassing opening day through start of registration at the incarceration camps (here, "centers"); and discusses the issue of sub-groups of incarcerees within the various incarceration camps.
This collection contains materials generated by J. Ralph McFarling, a Community Analyst for the War Relocation Authority, documenting the Amache Concentration Camp in Granada, Colorado where Japanese-Americans were incarcerated during World War II.
Type
text
Format
Correspondence
2 pages, typescript
application/pdf
Identifier
Luomala_letter
csudh_mcf
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/324
Language
English
Subject
World War II--Administration--War Relocation Authority
World War II--Administration--War Relocation Authority--Community Analysis Section
World War II--Incarceration camps
World War II--Incarceration camps--Conflicts, intimidation, and violence
World War II--Leaving camp--'Resettlement
Geographic communities--Washington
Geographic communities--Washington, D.C
Place
Washington, DC
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections;
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/csudh/spcoll/mcfarlingead.pdf
J. Ralph Mcfarling Collection

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