In 1980, the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians was established to review the facts and circumstances surrounding the relocation of American citizens and permanent resident aliens during World War II and "recommend...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; United States. War Relocation Authority; Detention of persons -- United States; Japanese Americans -- Civil rights
Describes Japanese migration to the U.S. before World War II, characteristics of the Japanese-American people who settled on the West Coast, the myths and prejudices surrounding them, and how they were treated following the bombing of Pearl...
Japanese Americans; Japanese Americans -- Attitudes; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
This report examines the phases of the WRA program in relation to legal issues. It is broken into 3 sections: I. The constitutionality of evacuation and detention; II. Legal considerations in the development of center management policies; III....
This report examines the postwar adjustment of relocated Japanese Americans during the 18 months following the closure of the Japanese American relocation centers in 1945. Begun in July 1946, the study was "to analyze the effects of the evacuation...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans
This report begins by examining how the relationship between Japanese Americans living on the West Coast in 1942 with other residents led to their being singled out for evacuation and placement in relocation centers after the bombing of Pearl...
Japanese Americans; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
This report examines how property owned by West Coast Japanese Americans in 1942 was handled when they were forced to go to relocation centers. Table of Contents: Legal Provisions for Controlling the Assets of Enemy Nationals in Time of War;...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Property; Farm ownership
Of the nine final reports written by the War Relocation Authority, this one differs in attempting to give a comprehensive view of the WRA program in its entirety rather than focusing on some particular facet of the program as did the other reports....
United States. War Relocation Authority; Japanese Americans; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
1910 Cadillac with acetylene headlights and kerosene parking lights. Four men in white dress shirts and ties are riding inside. Location is somewhere in Utah, probably 1910-1920. Photograph taken by W. L. Peterson. One black and white...
Mr. Pete Holmgren speaks about being a rancher, growing up on a ranch, and raising his own family on his ranch. He touches on how ranching has changed from his boyhood, and now watching his grandchildren grow-up on the ranch. He talks a little...
Holmgren, Pete--Interviews; Holmgren, Linda--Interviews; Cattle ranching; Pasture, Right of; Hay--Harvesting--Equipment and supplies; Ranch managers; Beef cattle--Cow-calf system; Haying equipment; Range management;
Ira T. Wines talks about growing up in a ranching family, in Elko County Nevada, learning by watching his father (and other cowboys) and by doing. He talks about managing the Ellison’s Spanish Ranch and the yearly work cycle. Ira talks about his...
Aerial view of Bear River Canyon, Utah, 1950s. Cutler Dam in distance. Bear River Canal and East side canal show on either side of Bear River. One black and white photograph (4.5 x 6.75 inches) mounted on board. (Negative Available).
Bear River Canyon (Utah)--Pictorial works; Irrigation canals and flumes--Bear River (Utah-Idaho)--Pictorial works; Dams--Bear River (Utah-Idaho)--Pictorial works
Aerial view of Bear River Canyon, 1950s. Cutler Dam at center of photo; Union Pacific Railroad tunnel is at right. One black and white photograph (4.5 x 6.75 inches) mounted on board.
Bear River Canyon (Utah)--Pictorial works; Cutler Dam (Utah)--Pictorial works; Railroad tunnels--Utah--Bear River Canyon--Pictorial works; Dams--Bear River (Utah-Idaho)--Pictorial works
Aerial view of Cutler Dam and Bear River canal system in Bear River Canyon, 1950s. View looking east. One black and white photograph (4.5 x 6.75 inches) mounted on board. (Negative Available).
Cutler Dam (Utah)--Pictorial works; Irrigation canals and flumes--Bear River (Utah-Idaho)--Pictorial works; Dams--Bear River (Utah-Idaho)--Pictorial works
Aerial view of Hyrum, Utah, 1940s. Distant view looking east of Hyrum Dam, Hyrum and bottoms of Little Bear River. One black and white photograph (4.5 x 6.5 inches) mounted on board. (Negative Available).
Hyrum (Utah)--History--Pictorial works; Hyrum Reservoir (Utah)--History--Pictorial works; Dams--Utah--Hyrum--Pictorial works
Agricultural equipment in Petersboro, Utah, July 1910. Big 4 gas tractor is on the left. To the right of a sign announcing "Petersboro Spur" is a flat car carrying the latest model case metal body separator thresher with power feeder and blower...
Threshing machines--History--Pictorial works; Tractors--History--Pictorial works
Alexander Dam site in Idaho, summer, 1922-23, showing base of partially constructed hydro plant. George H. Warren Gift. One black and white photograph (4 x 6.25 inches) mounted on board. (Negative available).
Alexander Dam (Idaho)--History--Pictorial works; Dams--Bear River (Utah-Idaho)--Pictorial works; Dams--Idaho--Alexander--Pictorial works; Hydroelectric power plants--Idaho--Alexander--Pictorial works
This proposed Rehabilitation and Betterment Program for the Hyrum Project describes the history and current condition of the Hyrum Project facilities, parts of which were over 50 years old in 1989. This report seeks to (1) describe the need for...
Water resources development -- Utah -- Cache County; Hyrum Project (U.S.); Hyrum Reservoir (Utah); Irrigation projects -- Utah -- Cache County; Dams -- Utah -- Cache County
Front shot of an automobile, probably the same 1910 Cadillac depicted in A3771, with passengers. Photograph taken by W. L. Peterson. One black and white photograph (6.5 x 10 inches) mounted on board.
Bear River Bridge at Hampton's Crossing near Collinston, Utah, about 1869. Bear River Canyon is in the background. From Grenville M. Dodge, How We Built the Union Pacific Railroad (Denver, 1965) p. 156. Negative available. Black and white...
Bear River Canyon, Alexander, Idaho. 1922. Work on Alexander hydro plant in distance. George H. Warren Collection. One black and white photograph (4 x 6.25 inches) mounted on board. (Negative Available)
Alexander Dam (Idaho)--History--Pictorial works; Dams--Bear River Watershed (Utah-Idaho)--Pictorial Works; Dams--Idaho--Alexander--Pictorial works; Hydroelectric power plants--Idaho--Alexander--Pictorial works; Dams--Bear River...
Bear River Canyon, 1890. View from east (Cache) end of Canyon, looking west. Photo by C.R. Savage. Gift of Nelson Wadsworth, 1985. One black and white photograph (5.75 x 9.25 inches) mounted on board. (Negative Available).
Bear River Narrows. 1890s. Diversion Dam to put water in Hammond Canal system. Site later flooded by Cutler Dam. One black and white photograph (4.5 x 6.5 inches) mounted on board. (Negative Available).
Dams--Bear River (Utah-Idaho)--Pictorial works; Cutler Reservoir (Utah)--History--Pictorial works;
Bear wagon with three bears caged inside and pulled by horses as part of the Ringling Brothers Circus Parade, Center Street, Logan, Utah, August 7, 1907, 11:45 am. Photograph taken by W. L. Peterson. One black and white photograph (6.5 x 9.75...
Flooded lot along Blacksmith Fork River. Gift of the Herald Journal. One black and white photograph (4.75 x 6.75 inches) mounted on board. (Negative available).
Flood damage--Utah--Blacksmith Fork River--Pictorial works
Interior view of the blacksmith shop on the Peter Peterson Ranch, March 14, 1908. Anvil, vent over fire, and tools are clearly visible. Photograph taken by W. L. Peterson. One black and white photograph (6.5 x 10 inches) mounted on board.
Blacksmithing--Equipment and supplies--Utah--Petersboro--History--Pictorial works; Peterson Ranch (Petersboro, Utah)--History--Pictorial works
Row boat on undisclosed river, carrying several passengers. A couple of the passengers in the front are women, one seated at the prow wearing a poke bonnet. Date of photograph is not known. Photograph taken by W. L. Peterson. One black and...
Boat on river with four passengers, passing underneath bridge. Photograph taken by W. L. Peterson. One black and white photograph (6.5 x 10 inches) mounted on board.
