Box MS611.02
Container
Contains 119 Results:
ACTIVITIES at Heart Mountain. Script, 1996-1997
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.52
Identifier: MS611.02.52
Scope and Contents
In Feb. 1943, a library was opened with 1,400 books which expanded to include 10,000 volumes. The Heart Mountain Sentinel’s October 24, 1942 issue printed it’s usual, “What’s Going on at Heart Mountain.” It listed the following CLASSES: Harmonica, Drama, Goh Clubs, Handicraft, Social Dancing, Shogi, Flower Arrangement, Girls Glee Club, Fashion Illustration, Costume Designing, String Ensemble, Bridge, Knitting, Embroidery, Sewing, Chikuzen Biwa, Utai, Shodo, Shigin, Social Science...
Dates:
1996-1997
CAMP AGRICULTURE – Beginning Spring 1943., Script - 1996-1997
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.53
Identifier: MS611.02.52
Scope and Contents
The detainees arrived at Heart Mtn. in the Fall of 1942, too late to get involved with agricultural projects. As soon as possible the following Spring, though, the detainees began work on completing the Shoshone Irrigation Project of the Buffalo Bill Dam, so to make the acreage around the camp irrigated. Much of this work included building and waterproofing 6,000 feet of the canal in the Heart Mtn. section. Thanks to the efforts of the detainees, water ran down the Heart Mtn. section of the...
Dates:
Script - 1996-1997
CHURCHES. Script-, 1996-1997
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.54
Identifier: MS611.02.37
Scope and Contents
The largest congregation was the Buddhist. Smaller congregations included the Community Christian, Catholic, Seventh Day Adventist, Episcopal, and Salvation Army Churches. Services were held in Japanese and English.
Dates:
1996-1997
MESS HALLS. , Script- 1996-1997
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.55
Identifier: MS611.02.55
Scope and Contents
All detainees were expected to eat in mess halls; there was one for every block. The mess halls were set up by the army and in army style. Detainees obtained their food in the “chow line” then ate at long tables and benches.WAR RELOCATION AUTHORITY: “The General Policy on Food.”
COMMUNITY ENTERPRISES. A co-op system called the Community Enterprises, was set where one could buy items that the government could not issue. The detainee operated and owned stores were soon a success, providing...
Dates:
Script- 1996-1997
HOME in a HEART MOUNTAIN BARRACK., Script - 1996-1997
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.56
Identifier: MS611.02.37
Scope and Contents
Detainees had all come from warmer climates and were ill prepared for the heavy snows, unceasing winds, and temperatures frequently dipping to -20 degrees. Coal, when finally, available was dumped on the streets then hand gathered by the internees. Most had never used a coal-burning stove before. Stories survive which tell of detainees throwing a match on the coal in their stove, then jumping back, thinking it would ignite into a big flame. Fire in the wood barracks was a constant danger and...
Dates:
Script - 1996-1997
HEALTH CARE and HOSPITAL at Heart Mountain., Script - 1996-1997
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.57
Identifier: MS611.02.57
Scope and Contents
Robert S. Kinoshita, M.D. was detained at Heart Mountain. He wrote the Governor of Wyoming on February 3, 1943 requesting to volunteer as a Selective Service Examining Physician for the area. He held an active commission as Captain in the Medical Reserve at the time of the incarceration. Upon consultation, the State Board of Medical Examiners, M.C. Keith, M.D. wrote to Governor Hunt; “I doubt very much if the Wyoming State Board of Medical Examiners would issue a license to a Japanese even...
Dates:
Script - 1996-1997
MILITARY. 654 men were inducted from the Heart Mountain Camp and served in the U.S. Army. , Script- 1996-1997
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.58
Identifier: MS611.02.58
Scope and Contents
654 men were inducted from the Heart Mountain Camp and served in the U.S. Army. 20 of these men paid the ultimate price. For these men, it was their proof of patriotism and they were sent by proud parents.
Dates:
Script- 1996-1997
SCHOOLS at Heart Mountain. , Script - 1996-1997
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.59
Identifier: MS611.02.59
Scope and Contents
Culturally, education is very important to Japanese and this cultural value was inherited by the Japanese Americans. Evidence of this priority is the fact that schools were immediately established at the Heart Mtn. Camp. With weeks of the detainee’s arrival classes began on Sept. 30, 1942. Children in grades 1 through 6 attended 1 of 5 grade schools in barracks located throughout the camp. High school classes began Oct. 6, 1942. Initially 6 barracks in 1 block and 3 recreation halls housed...
Dates:
Script - 1996-1997
FAIR PLAY COMMITTEE and DRAFT RESISTERS., Script - 1996-1997
File — Box: MS611.02, Folder: MS611.02.60
Identifier: MS611.02.60
Scope and Contents
Guy Robertson wrote to Gov. Hunt April 13, 1944: “The Fair Play Committee has been causing us a little trouble as you perhaps noted in the newspaper releases, but it is my opinion and hope that the matter is subsiding and that the boys will now appear for their pre-induction physical examinations.”
Frank Emi: “When the Army announced that they were going to draft the young men in the concentration camps of the same basis as the freemen on the outside, everybody was shocked. Whenever groups...
Dates:
Script - 1996-1997