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Mercedian The Mercedian, 1942.
James Tanji Mercedian Collection

Guy and Margarite Cook Nisei Collection  [Online image]
Guy Cook was a vice-principal and teacher at Tri-State High School at the Tule Lake Relocation Camp near Newell, California. This collection contains correspondence, reports of the War Relocation Authority, memoranda, pamphlets, and clippings from camp newspapers.

Harold Jacoby Nisei Collection [Online image]
Harold Jacoby was in charge of security at the Tule Lake internment camp. This collection includes War Relocation Authority reports, field notes, yearbooks, clippings, and other materials relating to Tule Lake and other camps.
  
Claire Sprague Papers [Online image]
Claire Sprague taught in Stockton public schools, where she worked with Japanese-American children at the time of their relocation to internment camps. This collection includes letters written to Sprague by her former students, interned Japanese-American sixth graders.
  
Yoshikawa Family Papers [Online image]
This collection documents the relocation experience of the Yoshikawa family from Stockton to the Rohwer Relocation Camp in Arkansas. It includes correspondence, personal papers, camp publications, and many photographs of camp life.

James Tanji Mercedian Collection [Online image]
This collection of the Mercedian, newsletter of the Merced Assembly Center was collected by James Tanji. Tanji, a Japanese-American, was sent with his family to the Merced Assembly Center before evacuation to a Japanese Relocation Camp.

Information about additional internment camp collections without online images is available from the Japanese-American Internment Collections page.

 

Images of materials in the Japanese-American internment collections can be viewed through Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives, as well as the online finding aids of each individual collection.