Photograph of a bird carving class in the Poston camp, April 1945

The Kuwahara Family Papers contains documentation of the Kuwahara family depicting the daily life and people incarcerated in the Poston camp in Arizona during World War II. Materials include: junior high school, high school, and camp community newsletters in both Japanese and English; a short travel journal written by Kenji Kawabe detailing his time while visiting the Granada camp in Colorado, Salt Lake, and the Topaz camp in Utah; photographs of class groups, farm workers, and the desert landscape; watercolor paintings of the Poston camp facilities; and programs and booklets of the family and community reunions of the Poston incarceration camp in print and electronic formats.