Publications and documents produced by Topaz Internment Camp residents, and memos from the War Relocation Authority to the staff of the Central Utah Relocation Camp concerning Japanese culture. The collections also includes issues of the Topaz...
Politics, Government, and Law; Civil Rights; Japanese Americans--Utah--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Archives.; Japanese Americans--Utah--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Periodicals.; World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Utah.;...
538 photographic images that document the lives of Laura R. and Lorin Merrill and their immediate family. The first 8 folders consist of photographs pasted into a book about Lorin and Laura and their children: Asa June, Harold Reese, Dean Reese,...
Guidebook to the Central Utah Relocation Project in Topaz, Utah describes to incoming residents the layout, facilities, and services of the center. Illustrated by Yuri Sugihara, the guidebook contains maps, building layouts, a diagram of the...
Central Utah Relocation Center; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Chiefly subject files accumulated by Sunada concerning events, people, and political matters in Logan, Utah. Includes information on boy scout activity in Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho).; Arranged topically.; Biographical Note; Subject Files: Boy...
Sunada, Susan.; Boy Scouts--Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho)
Bulk of the material is outgoing correspondence to her sons Dean and Asa Merrill (1940-1960). There is also a small amount of correspondence to and from Dean Merrill, mostly concerning his mother. Other correspondents include friends and other...
Mormon women--Utah--Diaries.; Mormon women--Utah--Correspondence.; Merrill, Laura Liona Rees, 1876-1963.; Merrill, Laura Liona Rees, 1876-1963--Correspondence.; Merrill, Laura Liona Rees, 1876-1963--Diaries.; Merrill, Dean Rees,...
In this letter to the editor of the Logan Herald Journal, her hometown newspaper, Laura Merrill writes from the Topaz Relocation Center, describing the small libraries she oversees as the Center's Librarian and what life is like inside Topaz. This...
Central Utah Relocation Center -- Libraries; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Central Utah Relocation Center; Merrill, Laura Liona Rees, 1876-1963 -- Correspondence; Letters to the editor -- Utah -- Topaz
This is the holiday issue of Trek, a quarterly literary magazine produced at the Topaz Relocation Center. Edited by Jim Yamada, with Mine Okubo as Art Editor, this issue contained the following articles: State of the City by Taro Katayama;...
Central Utah Relocation Center -- Periodicals; Central Utah Relocation Center; Geology -- Utah; Japanese Americans; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Collection contains nearly 2,000 copies of photographs (originals dating 1850-1995, bulk 1840-1975) that Dr. Ellsworth collected for his research on Utah history. Images include a wide range of topics, including artistic conceptions of prehistoric...
Material Types; Images; Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Portraits.; Ethnic groups--Utah--Portraits.
Mainly photographs Arrington collected for his numerous publications. Many of these photos are images related to Mormon economics in the nineteenth century, including early LDS entrepreneurs, Utah businesses, agriculture, beet sugar, and logging....
Material Types; Images; Mormon Church--Presidents--Portraits.; Beet sugar industry--Utah--Photographs.; Agriculture--Utah--Photographs.; Mormon pioneers--Utah--Portraits.; Frontier and pioneer life--Utah--Photographs.
Memorial address given September 11, 1944 by Rev. Shigeo Shimada at a memorial service for Private Nobuo Kajiwara, a 29-year-old Japanese American killed in action in Italy on July 11, 1944. The service was given at the Topaz Relocation Center...
Kajiwara, Nobuo, 1912-1944; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Central Utah Relocation Center; Japanese American soldiers; World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Japanese-American; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives
June 1943 issue of Trek, a quarterly literary magazine produced by the residents of the Topaz Relocation Center. This issue was edited by Toku Okubo and Nobuo Kitagaki with Mine Okubo as art editor and Alfred Sawahata as contributing artist. ...
Central Utah Relocation Center -- Periodicals; Central Utah Relocation Center; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans
Ramblings '44 is the second yearbook produced by the Associated Students of Topaz High School. Covering the school year September 1943 through June 1944, it describes the scholastic activities and accomplishments of Japanese American students...
Topaz High School -- Students -- Yearbooks; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Japanese American students interned at the Topaz Relocation Center produced high school yearbooks during the 1943 and 1944 school years. The introduction to the 1943 yearbook provides some insight into the unusual nature of their school: ...
Topaz High School -- Students -- Yearbooks; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Drafts and notes of almost all of Arrington's writings, including Great Basin Kingdom (1958); a History of First Security Bank (1973); Beet sugar in the west: a history of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company (1966); the Mormon experience (1979); Brigham...
Mormons--Utah--Biography.; Mormon women--Utah--Biography.; Mormon Church--History--Sources.; Church historians--Utah.; Beet sugar industry--West (U.S.)--History.; United orders (Mormon Church); Clyde, W. W. (Wilford Woodruff), 1889-1976.;...
Written and illustrated by residents of Topaz, this 55 page collection of stories and articles recounts the experiences and feelings of the Japanese Americans forced to leave cherished homes, jobs, possessions, and pets for the dusty, stark...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans -- Attitudes
Written in October 1942 to staff of the War Relocation Authority, this paper stresses the importance of understanding the cultural background of the Japanese Americans living in relocation centers. It describes common behavior patterns among the...
United States. War Relocation Authority; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans -- Attitudes; Japanese Americans -- Social life and customs
February 1943 issue of Trek, a quarterly literary magazine produced at the Topaz Relocation Center. Edited by Jim Yamada, Taro Katayama and Marii Kyogoku, with Mine Okubo as Art Editor and Tom Yamamoto as contributing artist. Articles and stories...
Central Utah Relocation Center -- Periodicals; Central Utah Relocation Center; Velez de Escalante, Silvestre, d. 1792; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans
This background paper prepared "for information of the staff of the War Relocation Authority " is marked "Restricted" and "Not for Publication." It begins with a description of Japanese migration to the U.S. and...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans
Memorial address given December 3, 1944 by Masaru Narahara for 10 Japanese American soldiers who died in action. Narahara, chairman of the Community Council at the Topaz Relocation Center where the address was given, paid honor to the memory of 10...
Japanese American soldiers; World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Japanese-American; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Central Utah Relocation Center
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
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
This report contains more than 100 tables and charts detailing statistics and characteristics describing the more than 120,000 people of Japanese descent who were under the jurisdiction of the War Relocation Authority during World War II. Data...
Japanese Americans -- Statistics; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Report describes the War Relocation Program from its inception in 1942 to closure of relocation centers and resettlement of evacuees in 1945. It covers why and how the War Relocation Authority was created, the meeting with state governors in Salt...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; United States. War Relocation Authority
Report examines the development and function of community government within the relocation centers. It describes early debates on how centers should be governed, problems caused by differences in attitudes and values held by alien Japanese (Issei)...
Japanese Americans; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
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 is Box 3 of a 6-box collection of diaries written over the course of 56 years (1895-1951) by a farmer in Petersboro, Utah. Box 3 covers the period 1911-1916 and is organized into 12 folders:
Folder 1: Vol. 16A, 1911 Jan.-Feb. (bound vol. 6.75...
Peterson family -- History -- Diaries; Peterson, Oliver Larsen, 1879-1955 -- Diaries; Farmers -- Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho) -- Diaries; Agriculture -- Cache Valley (Utah and Idaho) -- History; Agricultural machinery -- Cache Valley (Utah and...
Yearbook for Utah State University. Published from 1909-1971 with single issues in 1978 and 1981.
Utah State University--History; Utah State University; Utah State Agricultural College; Agricultural College of Utah; Universities and colleges--Utah; Education, Higher--Utah; USU--Student life; USU--Student publications; USU--Faculty and staff;...
Notes, correspondence, newspaper articles, genealogical data, and religious documents related to Lorin Asa Merrill, his wife, children, and posterity, covering the years 1876 to 1986.; The material is arranged in chronological sequence, first for...
Merrill, Lorin Asa, 1876-1919.; Merrill, Laura Liona Rees, 1876-1963.; Merrill, Laura Rees, 1901-1971.; Merrill, Milton R., 1901-1971.; Merrill, Bessie Austin, b. 1904.; Merrill, Asa June Rees, b. 1903.; Merrill, Harold Rees, 1905-1968.; Merrill,...
Arrington's correspondence as Church Historian; files document the work conducted by his staff and himself, including administrative files, oral history program material, applications, and Mormon History Trust Fund materials. Also includes drafts...
Mormons--Utah--Archives.; Historians--Utah--Archives.; Church historians--Utah--Archives.; Mormon Church--History--Sources.; Arrington, Leonard J.; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Historical Dept.--Records and correspondence.; Church...
The materials in this Series were donated to USU Special Collections in 2006 by Harriet Arrington, the widow of Leonard J. Arrington. This thirty-one box addendum consists of Leonard J. Arrington's working files and contains his correspondence,...
Arrington, Leonard J.; UMAbroad--Religion; UMAnarrow--Mormonism (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints)
Chiefly material on the history of Mormon women in the western U.S., including articles, bibliographies, biographies, and Arrington's own writings. Includes notes and minutes of the Relief Society; the 1892 Jan.-Mar. journal of Amelia Cannon...
Arrington's correspondence with and files about scholars, associates, and professional colleagues.; The Leonard J. Arrington Papers are divided into twelve different series which reflect his personal life, his professional career, and his research...
Mormons--Utah--Archives.; Historians--Utah--Archives.; Arrington, Leonard J.; UMAbroad--Religion; UMAnarrow--Mormonism (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints)
Includes articles, state reports, New Deal data by state, records of the Civilian Conservation Corps., and statistics of Utah F.E.R.A. Projects. Does not contain material concerning the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.; The Leonard J....
Historians--Utah--Archives.; Mormons--Utah--Archives.; Depressions--1929--West (U.S.)--Sources.; New Deal, 1933-1939--West (U.S.)--Sources.; Arrington, Leonard J.; Farnsworth, Philo Taylor, 1906-1971.; Civilian Conservation Corps...
The first series consists of his teaching files and the research projects he conducted while a professor at Utah State University and Brigham Young University.; The Leonard J. Arrington Papers are divided into twelve different series which reflect...
Mormons--Utah--Archives.; Historians--Utah--Archives.; Arrington, Leonard J.; UMAbroad--Religion; UMAnarrow--Mormonism (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints)
Correspondence, New Year's Resolutions, speeches given in junior high school and high school, drafts of autobiographies and memoirs, scrapbooks, documents about his military service, his files of newspaper and magazine clippings, his exams from the...
Mormons--Utah--Archives.; Historians--Utah--Archives.; Church historians--Utah--Archives.; Arrington, Leonard J.; Arrington family.; UMAbroad--Religion; UMAnarrow--Mormonism (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints)
Includes both primary documents and secondary material. The primary documents include the minutes of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) Church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles; Brigham Young's letterbooks, sermons, and diaries;...
Research materials on Utah history topics, including economics, mining, defense industry, industry, land reclamation, and Cache Valley history; research reports from the Utah Foundation; materials concerning Anschutz Land and Livestock Co. vs....
Mormons--Utah--Archives.; Economics--Utah--History--Sources.; Defense industries--Utah--History--Sources.; Industries--Utah--History--Sources.; Reclamation of land--Utah--History--Sources.; Arrington, Leonard J.; Farnsworth, Philo Taylor,...
Scrapbooks and memoirs of his wife, Grace Fort Arrington; articles by his children, Carl Wayne Arrington and Susan Grace Arrington Madsen; Arrington family history and genealogical information; draft of Leonard Arrington and Rebecca Cornwall's...
Mormons--Utah--Archives.; Church historians--Utah--Archives.; Historians--Utah--Archives.; Arrington, Leonard J.--Family.; Arrington, Grace Fort, 1914-1982.; Arrington, Carl Wayne, b. 1951.; Madsen, Susan Arrington.; Arrington, Noah Westley,...
Arrington's correspondence as Church Historian; files document the work conducted by his staff and himself, including administrative files, oral history program material, applications, and Mormon History Trust Fund materials. Also includes drafts...
Mormons--Utah--Archives.; Historians--Utah--Archives.; Church historians--Utah--Archives.; Mormon Church--History--Sources.; Arrington, Leonard J.; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Historical Dept.--Records and correspondence.; Church...
The purpose of the statement is to present factual data necessary to define and evaluate the environmental impact of the proposed construction and to assist the appropriate administrators in making decisions concerning proposed features of the...
Water resources development -- Utah; Water-supply engineering -- Environmental aspects -- Utah; Central Utah Project. Bonneville Unit;
The Bureau of Reclamation began collecting samples from a variety of sites in the Dolores River basin of Colorado in 1989. Sampling began after elevated mercury levels observed in fish in Reclamation's McPhee Reservoir prompted the Colorado...
Dolores Project (U.S.) -- Environmental aspects; Water quality -- Colorado; Water quality -- Utah; Water -- Pollution -- Colorado -- Dolores River; Dolores River (Colo.);
Volume 3 of the series Wild Flowers of Great Britain. Botanically and popularly described, with copious notices of their history and uses, by Robert Hogg and George W. Johnson, with original plates drawn and coloured from nature, by W. G. Smith.;
456 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.; A new American, from the latest London edition / with numerous and important additions generally, and the medical part carefully revised and adapted to the climate of the U. States, and also a new and most copious index, by...
Cooking, American; Formulas, recipes, etc.; Home economics--Handbooks, manuals, etc.;
491, [1] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.; Includes index; "Margaret Dods" is a pseudonym for C.I. Johnstone; the author's name is sometimes given as Christian Jane Johnstone.;
Annual report of extension service, 1943. Annual report of agricultural and home demonstration extension service, Cache County, State of Utah. From November 1, 1942 to October 31, 1943. Annual reports narrate the agricultural extension work...
Agricultural extension work--Publications--Utah--Cache County; Home economics extension work--Publications--Utah--Cache County;
