Archives West Finding Aid
Table of Contents
- Overview of the Collection
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Biographical Note
- Content Description
- Administrative Information
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Detailed Description of the Collection
- Department of the Interior: General Land Office
- Ray B. Haight, notes for various public addresses about Japanese Relocation
- Ray B. Haight, notes for meeting of Montana Institute for the Arts History group about Japanese Relocation for
- Montana Institute for the Arts History group
- Maps of Relocation centers in the U.S. and Montana; Lists of Relocation Center leaders
- U.S. War Relocation Authority: Field Supervisor reports
- U.S. War Relocation Authority: Reports and releases
- U.S. War Relocation Authority: Addresses
- U.S. War Relocation Authority: Constitutional principles involved in Relocation program
- U.S. War Relocation Authority: Harold H. Townsend testimony
- U.S. War Relocation Authority: Comments on statements by House Committee on Un-American Activities
- U.S. War Relocation Authority: "Myths and Facts About the Japanese-Americans"
- Addresses and Editorials on Japanese-Americans
- Addresses and Editorials on Japanese-Americans
- Japanese American Citizens League: "They Work for Victory: The Story of Japanese Americans and the War Effort"
- Pacific Citizen: issue about the Nisei
- "The Sunday Before": Sermons by Pacific Coast pastors of the Japanese race before evacuation
- Survey Graphic
- Japanese-Americans in the Pacific Northwest: Bibliography of materials at Tacoma Public Library
- Photographs #1-8,
- Photographs #9-15,
- Photographs #16-21,
- Photographs #22-26,
- Photographs #27-30,
- Photographs #31-32,
- Names and Subjects
Ray B. Haight Papers, 1911-1967
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Haight, Ray B., 1886-1977
- Title
- Ray B. Haight Papers
- Dates
- 1911-196719111967
- Quantity
- .4 linear feet and 1 reel audiotape
- Collection Number
- Collection 491, MtBC, us (collection)
- Summary
- The Ray B. Haight Papers consist mainly of information on the Japanese internment camps in the west during the war. Topics include: the camps, the treatment of Japanese-Americans, race issues, Japanese-Americans. There is also a tape recording of a 1967 speech Haight made before the Montana Institute for the Arts History group in Bozeman as well as his notes for various speeches. Photographs of several relocation centers in Colorado, Arizona, Wyoming, and California are also in the papers.
- Repository
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Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections
Montana State University-Bozeman Library
Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections
P.O. Box 173320
Bozeman, MT
59717-3320
Telephone: 4069944242
Fax: 4069942851
- Access Restrictions
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This collection is open for research.
- Languages
- English
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Ray B. Haight was born on June 23, 1886 in Buena Vista County, Iowa. He was the son of Frederich and Laura Cassiday Haight. In May of 1913, Ray married Verniece Chamberlain. They had five children: Cecil, Robert, Gertrude, Jean, and Lucile. During the 1920s, Haight ranched in Fergus County, Montana. In 1933, he moved to Bozeman where he served as the county agent for Beaverhead, Jefferson, and Madison counties. He was also the land use specialist for the U.S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics at Montana State College. During World War II, Haight was a relocation officer with the War Relocation Authority, a program overseeing the internment of thousands of Japanese Americans in camps throughout the western United States. Haight served as WRA area director for Salt Lake City. After the war, he served with the Bureau of Reclamation in land use planning in Billings until he retired in 1953. Ray B. Haight died in May 1977 at the age of 90.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The Ray B. Haight papers consist mainly of information on the Japanese internment camps in the west during the war. Many of the papers are documents produced by the U.S. War Relocation Authority concerning the camps and the treatment of Japanese-Americans. Editorials and publications published during the war about race issues and Japanese-Americans are also included in the papers. The papers also contain a tape recording of a 1967 speech Haight made before the Montana Institute for the Arts History group in Bozeman as well as his notes for various speeches. Photographs of several relocation centers in Colorado, Arizona, Wyoming, and California are also in the papers.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Department of the Interior: General Land Office, 1911-1916Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/1
Ray B. Haight, notes for various public addresses about Japanese RelocationReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/2
Ray B. Haight, notes for meeting of Montana Institute for the Arts History group about Japanese Relocation for, March 1967Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/3
Montana Institute for the Arts History group, March 17, 1967Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/4
Ray B. Haight, "Relocation of the Japanese in the Western Area During and After World War II"
Maps of Relocation centers in the U.S. and Montana; Lists of Relocation Center leadersReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/5
U.S. War Relocation Authority: Field Supervisor reports, 1945Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/6
U.S. War Relocation Authority: Reports and releases, 1943-1946Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/7
U.S. War Relocation Authority: AddressesReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/8
Addresses by William Haines Smart, 1943; Dillon S. Myer, director, 1945
U.S. War Relocation Authority: Constitutional principles involved in Relocation programReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/9
U.S. War Relocation Authority: Harold H. Townsend testimony, 1942, 1943Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/10
U.S. War Relocation Authority: Comments on statements by House Committee on Un-American ActivitiesReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/11
U.S. War Relocation Authority: "Myths and Facts About the Japanese-Americans", 1945Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/12
Addresses and Editorials on Japanese-Americans, 1942-1944Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/13
Addresses and Editorials on Japanese-Americans, 1945-1946Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/14
Japanese American Citizens League: "They Work for Victory: The Story of Japanese Americans and the War Effort"Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/15
Pacific Citizen: issue about the Nisei, December 22, 1945Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/16
"The Sunday Before": Sermons by Pacific Coast pastors of the Japanese race before evacuationReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/17
Survey Graphic, May 1944Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/18
"Civilian Internment American Way" by Earl G. Harrison
Japanese-Americans in the Pacific Northwest: Bibliography of materials at Tacoma Public Library, August 1971Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/19
Photographs #1-8,Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/20
Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado
| Container(s) | Description |
|---|---|
#1: New arrivals eat their first meal |
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#2: Getting settled in living space after
arrival |
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#3: Hospital technicians and a blood test
patient |
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#4: The cooperative store |
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#5: The Co-op beauty shop |
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#6: Three students of an adult craft class doing steamed
crayon work |
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#7: "Junior Prom" at Granada High School |
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#8: Elementary school children in the grade school
library |
Photographs #9-15,Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/21
Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado
| Container(s) | Description |
|---|---|
#9: Playing basketball |
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#10-11: View of the Granada Relocation Center |
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#12: Vocational students and calves they are
raising |
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#13: Japanese-American detainee working on water color
painting of his barracks |
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#14: Japanese-Americans learning how to operate a power
shovel |
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#15: Two Nisei volunteers talking to Captain William S.
Fairchild about enlistment |
Photographs #16-21,Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/22
Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming
| Container(s) | Description |
|---|---|
#16: Heart Mountain Relocation Center at night |
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#17: Howard Hisayasu family in their barracks |
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#18: Detainees ice skating |
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#19: Relocation Center swing band |
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#20: Advanced English class for adults |
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#21: Detainees working on their camp newspaper |
Photographs #22-26,Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/23
Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming
| Container(s) | Description |
|---|---|
#22: Signing up to work in sugar beet fields |
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#23-26: Japanese-Americans working in the relocation
center |
Photographs #27-30,Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/24
Relocation Centers, Arizona, Arkansas, California
| Container(s) | Description |
|---|---|
#27: Landscaping done by residents at Colorado River
Relocation Center, Poston, Arizona |
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#28-29: Classes at Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee,
Arkansas |
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#30: Memorial Day services at Manzanar Relocation Center,
Manzanar, California |
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
#31: Japanese-Americans working sugar beet field near
Milliken, Colorado |
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#32: Japanese-American teaching Navy students Japanese at
University of Colorado, Boulder |
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Speech of Ray B. Haight 1 reel audiotape
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1967 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Concentration camps-West (U.S.)-Photographs
- Japanese Americans-Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
- World War, 1939-1945-Evacuation of civilians-West (U.S.)
Corporate Names
- Granada Relocation Center
- Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.)
- Montana Institute of the Arts
Other Creators
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Corporate Names
- United States-War Relocation Authority (creator)
Kim Allen Scott, 2009
October 5, 2015
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