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Central Utah Relocation Center

 Organization

Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

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

 Collection — Box: 1
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