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Ray B. Haight Papers, 1911-1967

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Haight, Ray B., 1886-1977
Title
Ray B. Haight Papers
Dates
1911-1967
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
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

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
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Biographical Note

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.

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Content Description

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.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

The Ray B. Haight papers were donated to Special Collections by his son, Robert Haight, on March 31, 1985.

Processing Note

This collection was processed 2009 February 6

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Description: Department of the Interior: General Land Office
    Dates: 1911-1916
    Container: Box/Folder 1/1
  • Description: Ray B. Haight, notes for various public addresses about Japanese Relocation
    Container: Box/Folder 1/2
  • Description: Ray B. Haight, notes for meeting of Montana Institute for the Arts History group about Japanese Relocation for
    Dates: March 1967
    Container: Box/Folder 1/3
  • Description: Montana Institute for the Arts History group

    Ray B. Haight, "Relocation of the Japanese in the Western Area During and After World War II"

    Dates: March 17, 1967
    Container: Box/Folder 1/4
  • Description: Maps of Relocation centers in the U.S. and Montana; Lists of Relocation Center leaders
    Container: Box/Folder 1/5
  • Description: U.S. War Relocation Authority: Field Supervisor reports
    Dates: 1945
    Container: Box/Folder 1/6
  • Description: U.S. War Relocation Authority: Reports and releases
    Dates: 1943-1946
    Container: Box/Folder 1/7
  • Description: U.S. War Relocation Authority: Addresses

    Addresses by William Haines Smart, 1943; Dillon S. Myer, director, 1945

    Container: Box/Folder 1/8
  • Description: U.S. War Relocation Authority: Constitutional principles involved in Relocation program
    Container: Box/Folder 1/9
  • Description: U.S. War Relocation Authority: Harold H. Townsend testimony
    Dates: 1942; 1943
    Container: Box/Folder 1/10
  • Description: U.S. War Relocation Authority: Comments on statements by House Committee on Un-American Activities
    Container: Box/Folder 1/11
  • Description: U.S. War Relocation Authority: "Myths and Facts About the Japanese-Americans"
    Dates: 1945
    Container: Box/Folder 1/12
  • Description: Addresses and Editorials on Japanese-Americans
    Dates: 1942-1944
    Container: Box/Folder 1/13
  • Description: Addresses and Editorials on Japanese-Americans
    Dates: 1945-1946
    Container: Box/Folder 1/14
  • Description: Japanese American Citizens League: "They Work for Victory: The Story of Japanese Americans and the War Effort"
    Container: Box/Folder 1/15
  • Description: Pacific Citizen: issue about the Nisei
    Dates: December 22, 1945
    Container: Box/Folder 1/16
  • Description: "The Sunday Before": Sermons by Pacific Coast pastors of the Japanese race before evacuation
    Container: Box/Folder 1/17
  • Description: Survey Graphic

    "Civilian Internment American Way" by Earl G. Harrison

    Dates: May 1944
    Container: Box/Folder 1/18
  • Description: Japanese-Americans in the Pacific Northwest: Bibliography of materials at Tacoma Public Library
    Dates: August 1971
    Container: Box/Folder 1/19

  • Photographs #1-8,

    Container: Box/Folder 1/20

    Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado

    • Description: #1: New arrivals eat their first meal
      Location: Photographs #1-8,
    • Description: #2: Getting settled in living space after arrival
      Location: Photographs #1-8,
    • Description: #3: Hospital technicians and a blood test patient
      Location: Photographs #1-8,
    • Description: #4: The cooperative store
      Location: Photographs #1-8,
    • Description: #5: The Co-op beauty shop
      Location: Photographs #1-8,
    • Description: #6: Three students of an adult craft class doing steamed crayon work
      Location: Photographs #1-8,
    • Description: #7: "Junior Prom" at Granada High School
      Location: Photographs #1-8,
    • Description: #8: Elementary school children in the grade school library
      Location: Photographs #1-8,

  • Photographs #9-15,

    Container: Box/Folder 1/21

    Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado

    • Description: #9: Playing basketball
      Location: Photographs #9-15,
    • Description: #10-11: View of the Granada Relocation Center
      Location: Photographs #9-15,
    • Description: #12: Vocational students and calves they are raising
      Location: Photographs #9-15,
    • Description: #13: Japanese-American detainee working on water color painting of his barracks
      Location: Photographs #9-15,
    • Description: #14: Japanese-Americans learning how to operate a power shovel
      Location: Photographs #9-15,
    • Description: #15: Two Nisei volunteers talking to Captain William S. Fairchild about enlistment
      Location: Photographs #9-15,

  • Photographs #16-21,

    Container: Box/Folder 1/22

    Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming

  • Photographs #22-26,

    Container: Box/Folder 1/23

    Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming

    • Description: #22: Signing up to work in sugar beet fields
      Location: Photographs #22-26,
    • Description: #23-26: Japanese-Americans working in the relocation center
      Location: Photographs #22-26,

  • Photographs #27-30,

    Container: Box/Folder 1/24

    Relocation Centers, Arizona, Arkansas, California

    • Description: #27: Landscaping done by residents at Colorado River Relocation Center, Poston, Arizona
      Location: Photographs #27-30,
    • Description: #28-29: Classes at Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee, Arkansas
      Location: Photographs #27-30,
    • Description: #30: Memorial Day services at Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California
      Location: Photographs #27-30,

  • Photographs #31-32,

    Container: Box/Folder 1/25

    Japanese, American workers

    • Description: #31: Japanese-Americans working sugar beet field near Milliken, Colorado
      Location: Photographs #31-32,
    • Description: #32: Japanese-American teaching Navy students Japanese at University of Colorado, Boulder
      Location: Photographs #31-32,
    • Description: Speech of Ray B. Haight
      1 reel audiotape
      Dates: 1967
      Location: Photographs #31-32,

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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

  • Corporate Names

    • United States-War Relocation Authority (creator)

Kim Allen Scott, 2009
October 5, 2015

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