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Contributing Institution:
California State University Dominguez Hills, Gerth Archives and Special Collections
Title: McFarling (J. Ralph) Collection
Creator:
McFarling, Joseph Ralph
Identifier/Call Number: SPC.2011.005
Physical Description:
1 box
Physical Description:
.5 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1943-2007
Date (bulk): 1943-1946
Abstract: This collection contains materials generated by J. Ralph McFarling, a Community Analyst for the War Relocation Authority,
documenting the Amache Incarceration Camp in Granada, Colorado where Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II.
Some of this collection has been digitized and is available online.
Language of Material:
English
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There are no access restrictions on this collection.
Publication Rights
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director of Archives
and Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical
materials and not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
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Acquisition Information
The materials were donated by Eileen Neill to the California State University Archives at California State University, Dominguez
Hills in 2011.
Processing Information
Collection processed by Gregory Williams and Michele McKinnon Fricke, 2011.
History
Joseph Ralph McFarling was a Community Analyst for the War Relocation Authority at Granada (Amache) incarceration camp in
Amache, Colorado during the war. He was born in Rock Port, Missouri on May 11, 1901 attending the Univeristy of Missouri,
Methodist College in Cameron, the University of Chicago, Moody Bible Institute and University of Denver. He was the deputy
Postmaster in Rock Port. Later, he worked at the boy's reformatory in Jefferson City and a welfare worker for Atchison County.
After the war, he was transferred to Seattle, Washington to help establish communities for relocated Japanese Americans. He
died in Seattle on October 9, 1977. While at Granada incarceration camp, he reported to John H. Provinse and Edward Spicer,
two noted anthropologists.
Scope and Content
This collection contains materials generated by J. Ralph McFarling documenting the Granada (Amache) incarceration camp in
Amache, Colorado where Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II. It contains a ten page typescript memoir entitled
The Day the Ban was Lifted by McFarling describing conditions in the camp, weekly reports written by McFarling to the War Relocation Administration,
namely his supervisors John H. Provinse and Ned (Edward H.) Spicer (1944-1945), memos and other data relating to camp management,
letters from former prisoners who discuss their resettlement throughout the United States, a "resettlement" handbook and guides
to the Amache camp published at the camp. There is also a Smithsonian pamphlet entitled
The Japanese published in 1943, a pamphlet entitled
The Displaced Japanese-Americans published by the American Council on Public Affairs and a pamphlet entitled
Japan by the editors of Fortune Magazine, 1944. Other materials include four camp photographs and three watercolor paintings of
concentration camp barracks and their desert surroundings by Hajime Takata.
Arrangement
Materials are arranged in chronological order.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Japanese Americans
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Amache (Colo.)
McFarling, Joseph Ralph
Provinse, John Henry , 1897-1965
Spicer, Edward H., 1906-1983
United States. War Relocation Authority
Granada (Amache) Incarceration Camp