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Title Poston, Arizona. Robert Naeda, 9, son of the first family to arrive at this War Relocation Authorit . . .
Scope and Content Note The full caption for this photograph reads: Poston, Arizona. Robert Naeda,9, son of the first family to arrive at this War Relocation Authority center,studies his school lessons in a home-made chair. His family are evacuees from ElCentro, California.
Inclusive Start Date 1942
Inclusive End Date 1945
Finding Aid Type , Inventory
Finding Aid Note , Estelle Rebec and Martin Rogin, comps., Records of the War Relocation Authority, PI 77 (1955); supplement in National Archives microfiche edition of preliminary inventories

 
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Record Group Information

Inclusive End Date 1947
Data Control Group LCS
Title Records of the War Relocation Authority [WRA]
Inclusive Start Date 1941
Record Group Number 210

  Series Information

Organization Creator Type Most Recent
Creating Organization Department of the Interior. War Relocation Authority.
Scope and Content Note Under the authority of Executive Order 9066, issued by President Franklin D.Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, approximately 110,000 Japanese-Americans wereinterned in 10 relocation centers for the duration of World War II. Professionalphotographers, including Dorothea Lange, were commissioned by the WRA todocument the daily life and treatment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.These photographs show Japanese-Americans at home and at work immediately priorto evacuation; evacuees at assembly centers were they were processed beforebeing assigned to relocation centers; agricultural, vocational, educational,recreational, religious and internal political activities at each of the tenrelocation centers, supervisory personnel and local officials; Nisei resettledin their former homes or at work after releases from a relocation center; Niseiservicemen and women at awards ceremonies or on leave; the arrival and departureof evacuees who were transferred from one of the relocation centers to the TuleLake Segregation Center in September 1943, including a few photographs ofrepatriated Japanese-Americans embarking for Japan; property formerly owned byJapanese-Americans, but vandalized, deserted, or taken over by Chinese-Americansand others. Prints and negatives are fully captioned.
Inclusive End Date 1945
Data Control Group NWCS-S
Arrangement Prints- Arraned by subject headings created by WRA, which are numbered from 1 to 17 and are listed in the finding aid. Negatives- Filed by 10 lettered groups created by WRA (A,B,C,D,E,G,H,I,K,S), thereunder numerically. The letter designations have no apparent significance except four (D,E,H,I) which refer to individual photographers. All the letter groups are numbered in approximate chronological order.
Inclusive Start Date 1942
Author Description Date 11/1974
Author Description Date 05/06/1997
Numbering Note Negatives- Record Group, Series, Lettered Group, Item Number. Negative number does not include the subject heading number. EXAMPLE- 210-GA-183. Prints- Record Group, Series, Subject Heading Number, Lettered Group, Item Number. EXAMPLE- 210-G-3A-183.
Title Central Photographic File of the War Relocation Authority
Record Group Number 210
Access Restriction Status Unrestricted
Use Restriction Status Unrestricted

  Item Information

Data Control Group NWCS-S
Title Poston, Arizona. Robert Naeda, 9, son of the first family to arrive at this War Relocation Authorit . . .
Production Date 06/04/1942
Author Description Date 04/24/1998
Record Group Number 210
Access Restriction Status Unrestricted
Use Restriction Status Unrestricted
Scope and Content Note The full caption for this photograph reads: Poston, Arizona. Robert Naeda,9, son of the first family to arrive at this War Relocation Authority center,studies his school lessons in a home-made chair. His family are evacuees from ElCentro, California.

 

 
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