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Priscilla Wegars papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MG 629

Scope and Contents

This collection contains correspondence from Pricsilla Wegars and Yosh Shimoi, floppy disc containing original diary digitized and full English translation of diary.

Dates

  • Creation: 2005-2007

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research

Biographical / Historical

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States forcibly removed approximately 120,000 Japanese immigrants and Americans, relocating them in internment or prison camps across the West. Bunro Sakaeno wrote the diary translated in this collection while in the Fort Missoula, MT prison camp in 1942. He was later transferred to a prison camp in Santa Fe, NM where he resided until his release in 1945. This collection was donated by Priscilla Wegars an Affiliate Assistant Professor and curator of the University of Idaho’s Asian American Comparative Collection. Her research focuses on the historical archaeology of Japanese and Chinese Americans in the 19th and 20th century.

Extent

0.50 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

English

Japanese

Abstract

English translation of Japanese Internment Prison Camp Diary from Fort Missoula, Montana in 1942. Includes translation correspondence and floppy disc with digital copy of original diary In Japanese.

Arrangement

Materials were arranged in a single series with items grouped based upon content.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The materials in this collection were donatd by Priscilla Wegars in 2007 and 2019.

Related Materials

Related materials may be found in MG387.

Title
Guide to Priscilla Wegars papers
Status
Completed
Author
Finding aid prepared by Erin Geslani.
Date
2024
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Finding aid written in English.

Repository Details

Part of the University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives Repository