Box MS611.02
Container
Contains 119 Results:
CD-ROM Project - SCRIPT - First Installment Draft - NEXT 26 FOLDERS. / #42-Photo ID List, Sketch of Camp, 2 photocopies., 1996-1997
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.42
Identifier: MS611.02.42
Scope and Contents
Photograph Identification list. Sketch of Camp. 2 photocopies.
Dates:
1996-1997
TIMELINE. From May 22, 1942 – Dec. 12, 1947. - Heart Mtn. WY, 1996-1997
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.43
Identifier: MS611.02.43
Scope and Contents
TIMELINE. From May 22, 1942 – Dec. 12, 1947. The Japanese American Detention at Heart Mtn., WY.
Dates:
1996-1997
LOCATION for a DETENTION CAMP in WYOMING -1942 , 1996-1997
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.44
Identifier: MS611.02.44
Scope and Contents
The “Relocation Centers,” as they were called, were in fact detention or concentration camps. The camps were required to be away from the West Coast “Military Zone,” and were to be of federal land not useful for other wartime needs. The camps were to be isolated from military installations, yet accessible by train. Water and electricity were also to be available. Initially there was a lot of speculation as to the final locations for the camps. Wyoming was always a consideration.
Dates:
1996-1997
Heart Mountain Detention Camp Construction - Construction began June 8,1942., 1996-1997
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.45
Identifier: MS611.02.45
Scope and Contents
Construction began June 8, 1942. The camp was to accommodate up to 11,000 persons and built within 60 days. By the end of July 3,000 men worked at the site, and the government had allocated over five and one-half million dollar for the project. Army supervisors ran double shifts and 12-hour days so that work could continue around the clock. Draftsmen reduced designs to their simplest and crudest forms. Many of the hired “carpenters” had little or no experience in this line of work. The...
Dates:
1996-1997
FACILITY., Script -1996-1997
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.46
Identifier: MS611.02.46
Scope and Contents
The Heart Mtn. detention camp consisted of four hundred and fifty oblong barracks, 120’ X 20’ and were laid out in twenty blocks divided by unpaved streets. Each building contained six single-room apartments ranging in size from 16’ X 20’ to 24’ X 20’. Heavy black tar paper covered the exterior walls. (Barracks consisted of 6 units each, divided into small, medium and large sized units. Families were assigned to the units by family size.) The detainees arrived to, incomplete barracks’, no...
Dates:
Script -1996-1997
EVACUATION and “Assembly Centers” for the Heart Mountain Detainees -1942., Script - 1996-1997
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.47
Identifier: MS611.02.47
Scope and Contents
EVACUATION and “Assembly Centers” for the Heart Mountain Detainees -1942.
Dates:
Script - 1996-1997
ARRIVING at the HEART MOUNTAIN CAMP. The first trainload of detainees arrived on August 13, 1942. , Script - 1996-1997
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.48
Identifier: MS611.02.48
Scope and Contents
They continued to arrive in groups from 500 to 1100 per day, until there were more than 10,000, and the community ranked third in size in the state. There seemed to be a uniform initial response to the camp from the detainees: “desolate.” The dry, cold, dusty, fiercely wind-swept sage flats left an indelible mark on the detainees. Most of the detainees had never seen terrain like this before, having come from the lush West Coast. Hopes were soon dashed for those who thought “camp” was going...
Dates:
Script - 1996-1997
CAMP ADMINISTRATION - 1942-1945. , Script - 1996-1997
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.49
Identifier: MS611.02.49
Scope and Contents
The first director at the Heart Mountain Detention Camp was C.E. Rachford, a retired U.S. Forest Service administrator. Rachford’s assistant, Guy Robertson, succeeded Rachford as director of the camp Dec. 15, 1942, and remained as director for the duration. Robertson is remembered as capable and caring from his peers as well as from the detainees
Dates:
Script - 1996-1997
GOVERNING. Soon after the detainees arrived at Heart Mtn., a limited form of self-government was set up. , Script - 1996-1997
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.50
Identifier: MS611.02.50
Scope and Contents
Every camp block chose a representative, humorously called “blockheads.” These elected delegates drafted a charter, which was ratified by a two-thirds majority. The charter provided for the election of a councilman from each of the twenty blocks. These councilmen were them appointed to various committees: public relations and resettlement, agriculture, community enterprises, health and sanitation, education and recreation, food, welfare, labor, and legal. These committees participated...
Dates:
Script - 1996-1997
THE DETAINEES of Heart Mountain., Script - 1996-1997
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.51
Identifier: MS611.02.51
Scope and Contents
The detainees ranged in age a few weeks, born in “Assembly Centers” to the elderly in their 90s. Of the adults, about 1,800 had worked in small wholesale and retail businesses, 1,200 in agriculture, and over 1,000 in personal services. There were students, professors, construction workers, artists, and plumbers. The camp population peaked in Oct. 1942 at 10,872. There were 552 children born in the camp hospital. There were 183 deaths at Heart Mtn. A few of the deceased internees were buried...
Dates:
Script - 1996-1997