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Central Utah Relocation Center

 Organization

Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

Robert C. Anderton report

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0217
Abstract

The Robert C. Anderton report (1969) consist of Anderton's University of Utah class project paper on Topaz as a relocation center for Japanese Americans during World War II.

Dates: 1969

Klancy Clark De Nevers papers

 Collection
Identifier: ACCN 2285
Abstract The Klancy Clark De Nevers papers (1960-2008) contain World War II research gathered by de Nevers in preparation for the writing or editing of three different books. De Nevers research focuses on World War II, Japanese internment, and Aberdeen, Washington (her hometown). The publications resulting from this research include; The Colonel and the Pacifist, and The Cohasset Beach Chronicles that are a compilation of newspaper...
Dates: 1900-2015

Jessica Furman scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: ACCN 2372
Abstract

The Jessica Furman scrapbook (2007) contains the handmade book of a class trip to Topaz, the Japanese-American internment camp in Utah.

Dates: 2007

Interviews with Japanese Americans in Utah

 Collection
Identifier: ACCN 1209
Abstract

The interviews with Japanese Americans in Utah (1984-1988) consists of transcripts of a series of interviews conducted with members of the Japanese community between 1984 and 1988. Common themes within the interviews are family life, work, religion, immigration experiences, discrimination, and relations with the Mormon establishment in Utah.

Dates: 1984-1988

Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), Utah Chapter records

 Collection
Identifier: ACCN 1852
Abstract

The Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) Utah Chapter records (1927-2012) contain organizational materials for both the National JACL and local chapters as well as materials from other Japanese American events and organizations.

Dates: 1927-2012

Japanese American relocation collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0144
Abstract The Japanese American relocation collection (1941-1945) contain materials concerned with the War Relocation Authority (WRA), the Tule Lake Relocation Center, the Topaz Relocation Center, and the Heart Mountain Relocation Project. The collection contains correspondence, reports, statistics, magazine articles, newspaper articles, and other related material. In 1942, after the Pearl Harbor Bombing, Americans of Japanese ancestry, living on the West Coast, were ordered to internment centers in...
Dates: 1941-1945

Mike M. Masaoka papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0656
Abstract Mike M. Masaoka served as National Secretary (1941-1943) and Washington lobbyist (1945-1953) for the Japanese American Citizens' League. He was a member of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team during World War II and served as president of the Japan-America Society. He was active in issues of immigration reform and compensation for victims of wartime internment. The collection includes scrapbooks, yearbooks, correspondence, court and congressional documents, articles, oral history transcripts,...
Dates: 1931-1991

S. Floyd Mori papers

 Collection
Identifier: ACCN 2203
Abstract The S. Floyd Mori papers (1962-2005) contain correspondence, scrapbooks, student papers, meeting minutes, reports, memoranda, brochures, pamphlets, and memorabilia related to Mori's activities with the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL). Also included are documents related to his tenure as a California State Assemblyman. Mori attended schools in Utah and California and received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Brigham Young University. He started an international consulting...
Dates: 1962-2005

George Nakamura papers

 Collection
Identifier: ACCN 2912
Abstract

The George Nakamura Papers (1922-1992) consist primarily of correspondence to George Nagayuki Nakamura from Japanese American concentration camps and United States military installations during World War II.

Dates: 1922-1992

Willis Carl and Pearl Graul Nugent papers

 Collection
Identifier: ACCN 2471
Abstract

The Willis Carl and Pearl Graul Nugent papers (1940-2009) contain biographical information, a sermon, publications, and drawings of the Topaz Relocation Center.

Dates: 1940-2009

Willis Carl and Pearl Graul Nugent photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: P1584
Abstract

Willis Carl Nugent and his wife Pearl Graul Nugent worked as Protestant missionaries in Japan beginning in the 1920s. In 1942, they moved to Delta, Utah, to minister at the Central Utah Relocation Center, or Topaz. This collection contians photographs, postcards, and cards documenting the Nugents' work at Topaz and serving as missionaries in Japan dating from 1927 to 1951.

Dates: 1927-1957

Saving the Legacy oral history audio recordings

 Collection
Identifier: A0864
Abstract

The Saving the Legacy oral history audio recordings consists of interviews with World War II veterans living in Utah and the Intermountain Region about their experiences, early, and after war lives. The oral histories were taken by the American West Center, University of Utah. The collection was later expanded to include all war veterans.

Dates: 2000-2006

Saving the Legacy oral history project transcripts

 Collection
Identifier: ACCN 2070
Abstract The American West Center, at the University of Utah, is involved in a nationwide effort to preserve the stories of men and women who witnessed the events of World War II. This oral history project, Saving the Legacy: An Oral History of Utah's World War II Veterans, has the mission of interviewing veterans living in Utah and the Intermountain Region. The American West Center later expanded their mission to include all war veterans....
Dates: 2001-2010

Takasaburo and Lillian Sakaye Sekino papers

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Identifier: ACCN 2158
Abstract

The Takasaburo and Lillian Sakaye Sekino papers (1940s-1950s) contain documents related to the Sekino family's internment at Topaz during World War II.

Dates: 1940-1949

Sandra C. Taylor papers

 Collection
Identifier: ACCN 1808
Abstract The Sandra C. Taylor papers (1942-1999) contain research files, notes, material related to Vietnam and the Vietnam War, and photocopies of documents produced by the War Relocation Authority Board relative to the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. There is also material primarily relating to the conflict in Indochina, and its repercussions in American society. Also included are manuscript drafts written by Taylor and by others whose research she consulted. Taylor is a...
Dates: 1942-1999

Sandra C. Taylor photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: P0898
Abstract

The Sandra C. Taylor photograph collection contains images related to Vietnam and the Vietnam War and images produced by the War Relocation Authority Board depicting the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

Dates: 1945-1987

Faith Terasawa papers

 Collection
Identifier: ACCN 1473
Abstract

The Faith Terasawa papers (1942-1955) contain documents resulting from the internment of her family at the Central Utah Relocation Center ("Topaz") from 1942-1945. These include personal records, especially those surrounding the death of her father, Rev. B. H. Terasawa; camp administrative documents; educational documents; and camp publications.

Dates: 1942-1955

Faith Terasawa photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: P0602
Abstract

The Faith Terasawa photograph collection deals with significant issues dealing with the relocation of Japanese-Americans to internment camps in the Western United States during World War II. Formal portraits of Faith Terasawa, various groups at Topaz or Tule camps, and later (circa 1950) early color images of the buildings and grounds of Topaz or Tule.

Dates: circa 1930-1955

Topaz Museum interviews

 Collection
Identifier: ACCN 2465
Abstract

Transcripts of interviews (2008) conducted with individuals associated with internees at the Topaz internment camp in Utah.

Dates: 2008

Topaz oral histories photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: P0726
Abstract

The Topaz oral histories photograph collection contains one black and white candid shot of a young typist at Topaz. There are also four color photographs of various Japanese political figures in Washington D.C., during 1988.

Dates: 1940s-1988

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Subject
Civil Rights 13
Interviews 9
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 8
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- Sources 8
Business correspondence 7
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Oral histories 7
Japanese Americans 5
Newsletters 5
Personal correspondence 5
Photographs 5
Brochures 4
Scrapbooks 4
Topaz (Utah) -- Sources 4
Academic theses 3
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 3
Correspondence 3
Delta (Utah) -- Sources 3
Handbooks and manuals 3
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- Archives 3
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- Photographs 3
Japanese Americans -- Utah -- Sources 3
Maps 3
Newspaper clippings 3
Social Classes 3
Annual reports 2
Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945 -- Personal narratives 2
Aviation mechanics (Persons) -- 20th century -- Interviews 2
Bataan Death March, Philippines, 1942 -- Personal narratives 2
Calendars 2
Case studies 2
Civilians in war -- Utah -- Interviews 2
Clubs and Societies 2
Coal miners -- Utah -- Interviews 2
Coral Sea, Battle of the, 1942 -- Personal narratives 2
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 -- Personal narratives 2
Death marches -- Germany -- Interviews 2
Depressions -- 1929 -- Personal narratives 2
Hispanic Americans -- Utah -- Interviews 2
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Personal narratives 2
Iwo Jima, Battle of, Japan, 1945 -- Personal narratives 2
Japanese American soldiers -- Utah -- Interviews 2
Japanese Americans -- Reparations -- Sources 2
Japanese Americans -- Utah -- 20th century -- Archives 2
Japanese Americans -- Utah -- Archives 2
Japanese Americans -- Utah -- Photographs 2
Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Utah -- Personal narratives 2
Manuscripts 2
Māori Americans -- Utah -- Interviews 2
Memorandums 2
Midway, Battle of, 1942 -- Personal narratives 2
Military 2
Minutes (Records) 2
Nazi concentration camps -- Germany -- Sources 2
Newspapers 2
Operation Crossroads, Marshall Islands, 1946 -- Personal narratives 2
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 -- Personal narratives 2
Persian Gulf War, 1991 -- Utah -- Personal narratives 2
Photocopies 2
Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Sources 2
Prisoner-of-war camps -- Sources 2
Prisoners of war -- Germany -- Interviews 2
Prisoners of war -- Italy -- Interviews 2
Prisoners of war -- Japan -- Interviews 2
Prisoners of war -- Philippines -- Interviews 2
Radio operators -- Utah -- 20th century -- Interviews 2
Reports 2
Saipan, Battle of, Northern Mariana Islands, 1944 -- Personal narratives 2
Topaz (Utah) 2
Veterans -- Idaho -- Interviews 2
Veterans -- Utah -- Interviews 2
Veterans -- Utah -- Nurses -- Interviews 2
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Military intelligence -- Personal narratives 2
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Utah -- Personal narratives 2
Women -- Vietnam -- 20th century -- Archives 2
Women guerrillas -- Philippines -- Interviews 2
Women veterans -- Utah -- Interviews 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations -- Personal narratives 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Amphibious operations -- Personal narratives 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Artillery operations -- Personal narratives 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy -- Personal narratives 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Personal narratives 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Liberation -- Personal narratives 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Personal narratives 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Utah -- Personal narratives 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Personal narratives 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Utah -- Personal narratives 2
Aberdeen (Wash.) 1
All Aboard -- Specimens 1
Anti-racism -- Utah -- Sources 1
Audiocassettes 1
Awards 1
Bahais -- Utah -- Interviews 1
Black-and-white photographs 1
Bomber pilots -- Utah -- 20th century -- Interviews 1
Bomber pilots -- Utah -- Personal narratives 1
Book proposals -- Specimens 1
Booklets 1
Broadsides (notices) 1
Buddhist temples -- Utah -- Photographs 1
Buddhists -- Utah -- Interviews 1
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