Priscilla Wegars papers
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
- Sakaino, Bunro (Person)
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.
Source
- Wegars, Priscilla (Person)
- 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