Registry of U.S. Government Publication Digitization Projects
Descriptive Information- URL
- digital.lib.usu.edu/topaz.php
- Project and Contents Description
- In 1942 shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, over 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forcibly removed from California, Oregon, and Washington and confined to relocation centers. One of these relocation centers was the Topaz Relocation Center located on 17,500 acres in the middle of the Sevier Desert just outside of Delta, Utah. Until the camp closed in Oct. 1945, over 8,000 men, women and children lived, worked, and went to school there; over 100 of its residents volunteered for and served in the U.S. armed forces. What was it like to be a resident of one of these relocation centers? School yearbooks and literary magazines written and illustrated by Topaz residents offer insight into the life, activities, and feelings of the Japanese Americans held there from 1942-1945. Reports issued by the short-lived War Relocation Authority describe and analyze the establishment, operation, and closing of these centers; they also examine closely the causes and effects of this ! unprecedented incarceration. Other items in the collection include letters, memorial addresses, and various executive orders and legislative acts.
- Geographic Coverage
- Utah; United States
- SuDocs Classification
- I 52.2:
- Any non-U.S. Government Pubs
- Yes
- Other Government Publications
- Publications Source
- Library's Federal depository collection
- Library's non-depository collection
Administrative Information- Owner
- cwalters
- Project Contact Name
- Cheryl D. Walters
- Institution Name
- ah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library
- Address
- Digital Library Program, Logan, 84322-3000, U.S.A.
- Address 2
- UMC 3000, Old Main Hill
- E-mail
- Telephone
- 435-797-2623
- Secondary Contact Name
- Heather Leary
- Visited
- 121
- Secondary Contact Email
- Secondary Contact Phone
- 435-797-2650
- Institution Type
- Library
- Project Federally Funded:
- N/A
- Project Status
- Complete
- Searching for Project Partners
- No
- Digitization Conducted In-house
- Yes
Technical Information- Meets Criteria for Preservation
- Yes
- File Formats
- JPEG2000; TIFF; PDF
- Metadata Scheme in Use
- Dublin Core
- Metadata Encoded As
- XML
- Institution Has a Digitizaiton Policy
- Yes
- Policy URL, if any
- none
- Restrictions on Access
- No
Other Information- Additional Information
- This collection provides different perspectives on the Topaz Japanese-American Relocation Center via school yearbooks and literary magazines produced by the internees, a letter written by the school librarian living at the center, official War Relocation Authority reports, memorial addresses given to commemorate former Japanese-Americans who had lived at the Topaz camp and later died fighting in defense of the U.S., etc.
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