[WWII] [Japanese American] Japanese American incarceration archive, circa 1940s, documenting the personal lives of Japanese American detainees at Poston War Relocation Center in Arizona and Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming during World War II. Executive Order 9066 authorized the forced removal and incarceration of more than 120,000 persons of.....
[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.....
Japanese American incarceration photographs dating from World War II document daily life among families confined in War Relocation Authority camps in the United States. Following Executive Order 9066 in 1942, more than 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were removed from their homes on the West Coast and placed in a......
Japanese American incarceration photographs dating from World War II document civilian life and military presence at several internment and assembly centers established after the forced removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast. Following Executive Order 9066 in 1942, more than 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were confined in temporary.....
Salt Creek Haydite Plant album documenting shale extraction, rotary-kiln aggregate production, and water-control construction in Natrona County, Wyoming, 1922-1924, recording the first commercially manufactured lightweight structural concrete aggregate in the United States, patented by Kansas City brickmaker Stephen J. Hayde in 1918 after he discovered that certain shales and clays.....
Americana Historic newspaper. The Press, July 7, 1876 issue, Philadelphia, PA. The first front-page story reports on the Battle of the Plains and General Custer's consequent demise. In part: "Despatches to Generals Sherman and Sheridan which show that the first reports were only too true - an intimation that Custer.....
[Wyoming Photography] [Western Americana] Original albumen photograph of "The Paint Pot", a boiling mud spring located in the Lower Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. The scenery is presented as "4035. 'The Paint Pot' Boiling Mud Spring" on the lower margin. Circa 1890-1900. 7" x 4.5". Presents a captivating.....
Historic Newspaper. Free Press, August 27, 1874, Mount Pleasant, Iowa, 4 pages, recto and verso. An article on the second page describes Custer's expedition and findings in Black Hills, in the expired Sioux reservation, Wyoming Territory. In part:"...The expedition thus far has met with no resistance from the Indians...Gold and.....
