Relocation Center, Used (31 results)

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Wrappers. Condition: VG. 41 pp. illus. Entire issue about Japanese Interment camps in Arizona. Other articles are Introduction by Shirley Weik, Snapshot, 1944 by David Mas Masumoto; Japanese Interment Camps In Arizona: Sources for original documents by Jean Nudd stapled printed wrappers. Grease stain on front cover 412 AHC.

Paperback. Condition: Good - Cash. General reader wear to the corners, edges, and cover. The covers/corners have some creasing. The pages show some general reader wear as well. The book is in good condition with some normal reader wear. There are several usual library markings, stickers, tape, pastedowns, or marker on the cover and inside the book. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. 72p., very good in wraps, black and white illustrations throughout, very good condition. Reprint of the 1962 work.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pictorial cover Unpag [128],map,pl Photos by Clem Albers, Dorothea Lange and Francis Stewart.

Paperback. [1] 476p, 8.5x11 inch pictorial wraps; tearing and wear to heel of spine, otherwise in very good condition. Inlaid in volume 1 is a xeroxed copy of a letter to previous owner from Kari Coughlin, from the US Dept. of Interior National Park Service for the Manzanar historic site. [II] wraps lightly edgeworn, library discard stamp on title page, rear wrap lightly soiled, otherwise in very good condition. Historic Resource Study / Special History Study. Two volumes of the study, for reading copies.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Brochure. Condition: Very good. One sheet, double-sided, folded into four panels. Brochure for the memorial monument to commemorate the relocation of all persons of Japanese ancestry living on the west coast and western Arizona to the camp in Poston opened May 5, 1942, and closed November 28, 1945. B&w illustrations and map. (Folded - 8-1/2"x3-1/2"; unfolded - 8-1/2"x14").

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Very nice book, tight and square with bright covers and spine, clean unmarked interior. Sturdy binding.

Softcover. Condition: Good+. Glossy softbound covers with some wear to the edges of the covers. A clean and tight copy.; 72 pages.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Clean crisp copy with no markings., Slight tears to jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Paperback. First edition, 1962. The Japanese-American "Relocation" Center, Topaz, Utah 48 Fair to good. The covers have tape removal marks. Address label on the title page.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. B&W photos (illustrator). (NAP). With a chronology. Photos from the LOC and National Archives. Most photos are reproduced at 8" x 6". Tight binding with square, uncreased spine. No marks. Binder's glue is showing through the covers near the spine. Owner's rubber stamping corner title page. Minor cover wear with lower corner lightly bumped.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Inscribed on the title page by Sue Kunitomi Embrey, who contributed an introduction to this work. An influential Japanese-American activist from her youth in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles to her grim experiences at Manzanar and her postwar struggle to raise awareness of the internment camps, Embrey (1923-2006) played a major role in bringing this dark chapter of American history into the light of congressional acknowledgement and a presidential apology. A new and expanded edition of the book first published by U.S. Camera in 1944 with photographs and text by Ansel Adams. Includes an introduction by Archie Miyatake, the son of photographer and Manzanar internee Toyo Miyatake, who collaborated with Adams on the collaborative exhibit Two Views of Manzanar after the war. Also features contributions by Sue Kunitomi Embrey and William H. Michael. Edited by Wynne Benti. Quarto: 128 p. with numerous photographic illustrations. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. A near fine copy in a pictorial dust jacket with some minor rubbing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. "This revealing book presents in both memoir and diary form the first-hand observations of Japanese American civilians held in detention camps during World War II [.] The reader meets a bitter Japanese American high school student who has been calmly pursuing his studies in the hope of going to college, and is now rejected by colleges because he has been imprisoned by Americans for being a Nisei (an American of Japanese descent). Here, too, is a young internee whose decision is to join the U.S. military." Octavo: [x], 102 p. Original blue cloth binding, with silver titles. Light rubbing to the corners and tips, with some mild edgewear to the dust jacket; otherwise very good.

PAPERBACK. First edition. 910pp b/w illustrations quarto paper. slight cover wear, soiling otherwise very good-.

Hardcover. 102p., very good first edition in like dj. Kaneshiro, a Kibei who was born in Hawai'i and educated partially in Okinawa, was incarcerated at Rohwer before being sent on to other relocation centers including Tule Lake. He had applied for repatriation to Japan but ultimately decided to stay in the US, eventually settling in Los Angeles.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. 1st edition. A Very Good copy. Oblong 4to., unpaginated, illustrated with numerous B&W photographs. Stiff, white, photo-illustrated paper wraps. Light wear to the wraps. A few smudges to the wraps. We could locate only 5 copies of this title on OCLC.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. 128pp. Quarto [29 cm] Blue cloth with the title silver stamped on the backstrip. Fine/Fine. Celebrated work and essay on the Manzanar internment camp by the famed photographer, Ansel Adams. In the autumn of 1943, Ansel Adams (1902-1984) arrived at Manzanar and immediately began documenting the interned individuals and families at work and play. This reprint contains thirteen more photographs than the original edition. "Moved by the human story unfolding in the encirclement of desert and mountains, and by the wish to identify my photography in some creative way with the tragic momentum of the times, I came to Manzanar with my camera in the fall of 1943." - Ansel Adams. Zamorano Select 1.

Stiff printed wrappers. Condition: Very Good+. Kurt Werth, Bernardine Custer, David Fredenthal illustrations (illustrator). First Editions. 8vo. Pp. 120 (vol. III nos. 3, 4); 112 (vol. III no. 5, vol. V nos. 1, 2.) Each issue illustrated with a pp. 8 section of b&w gravure photo reproductions plus ink drawings in the text. Two-color printed wrappers saddle stapled. Minimal toning or foxing to edges, else crisp and bright. With two original manila mailing envelopes addressed to Mr. Robert Ikeda at 28 - 4 - A in Hunt, Idaho, the Minidoka Relocation Center where West Coast Japanese Americans were imprisoned. Literary periodical of the Council established in 1940 to, in part, "overcome intolerance and discrimination because of foreign birth or descent, race or nationality." With articles by Woody Guthrie, Pearl S. Buck, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, Archibald MacLeish and others.Several articles grapple with the imprisonment of Japanese Americans: a report on the December 1942 incident at Manzanar Relocation Center and a letter from its director Ralph Merritt in Vol. III no. 3. and a five-article symposium in no. 4. The envelopes make this collection specially poignant.

Condition: Good. First Edition. A Good Paperback Book with Some Restoration Work to Delicate Binding. Book is generally shelf worn with several chips to extremities. Wraps are sunned and dust soiled. Text is unmarked but scattered instances of foxing. Wraps have been reattached and strengthened with Japanese paper. Paperback. Octavo. [iii], 4-112pp. A Striking and Powerful Work from One of the 20th Century's Great Photographers. Evergreen, the important work done by Adams surround the Japanese-American internment camp at Manzanar is proving exceptionally and acutely relevant now. Publisher's Staple Bound Burgundy Paper Wraps, Seafoam Green Detailing.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First Edition. 112p quarto, illustrated Texts and photographs by Ansel Adams. Extremities a little bumped and rubbed else near fine in good dust jacket with some moderate overall chipping, mostly visible on the front panel. Inscribed on the verso of the front fly: "For M.H. Pollock with good wishes of Ansel Adams Feb 1946" A photo essay on the interned Japanese Americans at Manzanar. Adams made little attempt to hide his contempt for the policy. Rare either in jacket or signed, this is both.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. Green paper over boards. Worn along spine and edges. Points bumped. No jacket. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall.

[Japanese Internment] Heart Mountain War Relocation Center materials documenting administrative theory alongside camp level cultural practice. The War Relocation Authority's political administration and daily life inside Japanese American incarceration during World War II, including a copy of Community Government in War Relocation Centers signed "Rachel Sady," likely the anthropologist Rachel Reese Sady of the War Relocation Authority's Community Analysis Section, paired with a 1944 recital program naming Heart Mountain residents and a camp letterhead sheet. The booklet analyzes block organization, temporary councils, organizing commissions, the crises at Poston and Manzanar, registration, and the extension of representation to Issei, while the recital program shows community activities operating within Heart Mountain's own block and barracks geography. Heart Mountain opened in Wyoming in August 1942 under the War Relocation Authority, held more than 10,000 Japanese Americans behind barbed wire and guard towers, and differed from most WRA camps in relying on a Temporary Council of Block Chairmen rather than a standard elected community council, making this grouping a sharp document of how federal control and inmate social life intersected within one confinement site. 1944-1946, Heart Mountain, Wyoming, with one Washington, D.C., War Relocation Authority publication. Archive of 3 items: 1 typed recital program, 1 Heart Mountain War Relocation Project letterhead sheet, and 1 printed WRA booklet. [1] United States. War Relocation Authority. Community Government in War Relocation Centers. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, [1946]. Printed wrappers, upper cover signed "Rachel Sady." Prepared by Solon T. Kimball, head of the Section of Community Government, the 103-page volume examines the War Relocation Authority's effort to construct political administration within the camps through legal policy, block organization, temporary community councils, organizing commissions, and debates over representation, with sections on the Poston strike, the Manzanar riot, registration, and the extension of representation to the Issei. Its closing pages turn from camp governance to the consequences of removal itself, recommending "special governmental agencies or units" to provide "resettlement aid (grants)" and "loans" to former inmates, and stating in a "statement of facts" that "mental suffering has been caused by the forced mass evictions" and that there had been "almost a complete destruction of financial foundations built during over half a century." The signature matches the name of anthropologist Rachel Reese Sady, a University of Chicago trained researcher who worked for the WRA's Community Analysis Section during the war and later wrote on labor relations, race relations, and rumors in the camps; without further provenance, the inscription is best treated as a probable but unconfirmed identification. [2] The Community Activities of Heart Mountain invites you to a Pupils Piano Recital of Julia Kuwahara. Heart Mountain, Wyoming: Community Activities of Heart Mountain, May 29, 1944. Typed program for a recital held Monday evening at 8:00 p.m. in "Y Lounge, 23-25-N." The program names Heart Mountain residents and performers including Nobuko Kato, Lillian Kumagai, Helen Kato, Fumiko Fukuda, Kiyoko Nomura, Linda Ito, Matsuko Iizuka, Taneko Okauchi, Frances Okazaki, and Kiku Hori, with repertoire by Mozart, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and others. In documentary terms, this is the strongest item in the group: it anchors camp cultural life to a precise date and place while preserving a roster of named individuals living inside Heart Mountain's internal address system. [3] Heart Mountain War Relocation Project letterhead. Heart Mountain, Wyoming: War Relocation Authority, circa 1944-1945. Single sheet with printed Heart Mountain vignette and the designation "Heart Mountain War Relocation Project / Heart Mountain, Wyoming." Though blank, the stationery locates the other material within the camp's official administrative framework and provides a direct artifact of WRA institutional print culture at Heart Mountain. Heart Mountain developed one of the most contested political cultures in the WRA system, later becoming the center of resistance to the military draft in 1944 and 1945, while everyday camp life still depended on schools, churches, clubs, and community activities organized inside the barracks blocks. That tension is exactly what this grouping preserves: the federal language of managed "community government," the named residents who populated Heart Mountain's musical and educational life, and the camp stationery that ties both to a specific incarceration site. Light edge wear, toning, and scattered staining to the recital program; letterhead with light wear and minor staining; booklet with wrapper wear, front and back disconnected from body but in tact. Overall good condition. A compact documentary group linking WRA administrative policy to identifiable Heart Mountain residents and the lived structure of community life inside confinement. Signed.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Archive of documents from the Central Utah Relocation Center, known as Topaz. From the estate of Susan Nail, daughter of the camp's Military Police company captain, who attended Topaz High School for her senior year. Includes 5 issues of the high school newsletter.

First Edition. Adams, Ansel. Born Free and Equal published in 1944 presents a photographic record of Japanese Americans incarcerated at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California during World War II. Adams produced the work following visits to Manzanar in 1943 and 1944, when Japanese American families were confined under wartime relocation policies after the issuance of Executive Order 9066. The book documents daily life inside the camp and portrays individuals who had lost homes, businesses, and professions after forced removal from the West Coast. Adams framed the project as an effort to depict the civic loyalty and resilience of the incarcerated community while the war was still underway and anti Japanese sentiment remained widespread in the United States. Adams, Ansel. Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese-Americans. New York: U.S. Camera, 1944. First edition, first printing. Adams undertook the project after being invited by Manzanar director Ralph Merritt to photograph life at the camp. The resulting images were later exhibited publicly and published in this volume. Adams described his intent directly in the book: "The purpose of my work was to show how these people, suffering under a great injustice, and loss of property, businesses and professions, had overcome the sense of defeat and despair by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment.All in all, I think this Manzanar Collection is an important historical document." The photographs portray residents of the camp in everyday activities and community roles, including families, nurses, students, farmers, and veterans such as Nobutero Harry Sumida, identified in the text as a Spanish American War veteran. The book also includes landscape images of the Owens Valley surrounding the camp. Adams's Manzanar photographs became part of a broader effort during the war to shape public perception of the incarceration of Japanese Americans, and the publication and exhibition of the images generated significant discussion because of the subject matter. The work remains one of the earliest extended photographic documentations of life within a wartime relocation center. Softcover volume measuring approximately 11 × 8 inches. 112 pages including 65 photographic illustrations. Stapled maroon wrappers with light green lettering. Minor half inch tear at the lower front spine and light handling wear; interior pages and photographic reproductions remain clean and bright. Very good condition overall and an important contemporary photographic record of Japanese American wartime incarceration.

[Japanese American] [WWII] [Internment] Japanese American photograph archive, circa 1930s to 1940s, records civilian identity and interpersonal life across the World War II era, including one photograph with a note on verso tied directly to incarceration at the Rohwer Relocation Center in Arkansas. Named individuals, preserved through handwritten inscriptions, establish the archive as a record of the mid 19th century Nisei experience. This evocative photographic archive captures fragments of Japanese American civilian life both prior to and during World War II incarceration. Archive consists of 17 silver gelatin photographs measuring approximately 2.5 x 3 inches to 4 x 6 inches. Subjects include individual portraits, paired figures, and small group scenes photographed outdoors. One image dated July 1, 1944 bears the verso inscription "Jaden: Rohwer Relocation" and front inscription "Ginny! - Aloha, Mich," identifying a woman confined at Rohwer, a War Relocation Authority camp that held over 8,000 Japanese Americans during the war. Additional photographs include two separately identified women, The remaining images include two separate portraits of young women confidently posed outdoors. The women are dressed in fashionable WWII-era separates - fitted short-sleeved blouses tucked into dark skirts, both with their names penned en verso; "(Mae West) Sasano", and "Yasuko." Another is a snapshot of a male grouping on what appears to be a construction site and en verso is written "31" possibly indicating a year. Japanese Americans played a significant role in helping build infrastructure such as canals, bridges, and roads, particularly in the West. Lastly, a snapshot of a casual, intimate outdoor portrait of a man and woman seated side-by-side. Together, these images provide a poignant, humanizing counterpoint to official narratives of incarceration, emphasizing style, resilience, and familial bonds. The inclusion of both prewar and internment-era materials adds depth and rarity to the grouping, situating it as a valuable resource for researchers of Japanese American history, internment documentation, and the broader landscape of W.W.II homefront experiences. This archive photographs foreground continuity in social interaction, dress, and personal identity across prewar and wartime conditions while retaining a direct link to the history of forced removal through the Rohwer inscription. Light wear to edges, minor surface handling, and occasional corner softening; inscriptions clear. Overall in very good condition. The grouping provides a concise body of primary material for examining Japanese American identity spanning wartime incarceration and postwar reintegration into American society.