Wartime materials, 1943-1945

This series contains materials collected by Atsushi Art ishida while he was incarcerated in the Santa Anita Assembly Center, Jerome incarceration camp, Tule Lake Segregation Center, and Minidoka incarceration camp, and also when he was released from the camp and settled in Chicago, Illinois. Materials were issued and distributed by War Relocation Authority, Western Defense Command, and Selective Service System, or created in the camps during the war. Included are booklets, forms, notices, permits, name tags, mess hall cards, time cards, newsletters, correspondence, Gila River 1943 calendar, earning statement and 1945 with holding receipts, bills of his moving expenses, and membership cards of Buddhist associations in Chicago. There are also his journals and narratives recording his experiences during the incarceration.