Register of the Anne Loftis Papers
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Register of the Anne Loftis Papers
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California
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- Hoover Institution Archives
- Stanford University
- Stanford, California 94305-6010
- Phone: (650) 723-3563
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- Email: archives@hoover.stanford.edu
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- Date Completed:
- 2002
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Anne Loftis papers
Date (inclusive): 1941-1976
Collection number: 71032
Creator:
Loftis, Anne, 1922-
Extent:
8 manuscript boxes, 3 phonotape reels
(3.5 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, reports, research notes, printed matter, and phonotape reels, relating to the evacuation and relocation of
Japanese-Americans, 1942-1945. Includes oral history interviews of immigrants to California.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
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copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see
or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible.
Publication Rights
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Anne Loftis papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Biographical Note
| 1922 Feb. 8 |
Born, New York, New York |
| 1944 |
B. A., English, Smith College |
| 1969 |
Author,
The Great Betrayal: The Evacuation of the Japanese-Americans during World War II (with Audrie Girdner)
|
| 1973 |
Author,
California: Where the Twain Did Meet
|
| 1977 |
Author,
A Long Time Coming: The Struggle to Unionize America's Farm Workers (with Dick Meister)
|
| 1980 |
Author,
John Steinbeck and Farm Labor Unionization: The Background of "In Dubious Battle" (with Jackson J. Benson)
|
| 1998 |
Author,
Witnesses to the Struggle: Imaging the 1930s California Labor Movement
|
Scope and Content Note
The bulk of these papers are research materials compiled for the book Anne Loftis co-authored with Audrie Girdner in 1969,
The Great Betrayal: The Evacuation of the Japanese-Americans during World War II. The collection includes correspondence, printed material, research notes, and phonotape reels. The papers document the evacuation
and relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II, military service performed by Japanese Americans, and postwar efforts
for restitution and civil rights for Japanese Americans. Also included are oral history interviews about immigrants to California
and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.
The Notes series consists primarily of brief excerpts used to write
The Great Betrayal. Occasionally chapter numbers are included in the folder title, but these numbers are sometimes misleading; chapter numbers
written on the excerpts are probably more accurate. The bulk of the material appears to relate to Chapter One, "Crisis"; Four,
"The Great Rejection"; and Five, "Evacuation". Abbreviations used by Loftis include JACL (Japanese American Citizens League),
WCCA (Wartime Civil Control Administration), and WRA (War Relocation Authority).
While the Notes series is chiefly brief excerpts, the Sources and Research Materials series contains documents in their entirety.
Included are clippings, government documents, notes of interviews of Japanese Americans and others who were involved in the
evacuation and relocation in some way, notes from the diary and letters of Helen Kitaji, and general background material collected
in the course of researching and writing
The Great Betrayal. In most instances in both this series and the Notes series, the original titles of folders have been retained.
The bulk of the Newspapers series contains selected issues of the
Pacific Citizen, the membership publication of the JACL, and a few issues of
Gidra, a news magazine of the Asian American Community published in Los Angeles, which contain material concerning the history
and activities of Japanese Americans. Also included are random issues of miscellaneous newspapers, including some in Spanish,
that do not appear to relate to
The Great Betrayal. The newspapers were typically retained in their entirety, but a few are annotated or have holes where articles were clipped.
The Phonotapes comprise five oral history interviews about the experience of immigrants in California and the 1906 San Francisco
earthquake and fire. Individuals interviewed are (1) Dr. and Mrs. C. H. Loehlin, observers of immigrants from India; (2) Mrs.
Walter Sharp and Mrs. Harris' mother, on the San Francisco earthquake; (3) Khatchik Minasian, cousin of William Saroyan, on
immigrants from Armenia; (4) Carlton A. Sheffield, a friend of John Steinbeck and an observer of a variety of immigrants and
Dust Bowl migrants in Marysville in the 1930s; and (5) Peter Jamero, son of immigrants from the Philippines. These interviews
and the Newspapers series may be related to Loftis' second book,
California: Where the Twain Did Meet, which concerns immigrant groups in the state.
Papers compiled by Anne Loftis for the book that she co-authored with Dick Meister,
A Long Time Coming, are housed at the Stanford University Archives (Collection Number M0306).
The Hoover Institution Archives acquired the Anne Loftis Papers in 1971.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the repository's online public access catalog.
Subjects
World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945--United States.
California.
United States.
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
Genres and Forms of Material
Phonotapes.
Series Description
box 1-4
Notes, 1941-1968.
Scope and Content Note
Clippings, excerpts, notes, arranged by subject in rough chronological order of events portrayed in
The Great Betrayal
box 5-6
Sources and Research Materials, 1941-1978.
Scope and Content Note
Clippings, correspondence, government documents, newsletters, notes, pamphlets, transcripts of speeches, arranged alphabetically
by subject
box 6-8
Newspapers, 1961-1976.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged alphabetically by title
box Tape cabinet
Phonotapes, 1970.
Scope and Content Note
Five oral history interviews
Container List
Box/Folder 1 : 2
After Pearl Harbor experiences
Box/Folder 1 : 4
Extreme proposals against Japanese explanation
Box/Folder 1 : 6
Attitudes toward evacuation
Box/Folder 1 : 7
Statements by outsiders (pro)
Box/Folder 1 : 10
Native Sons citizenship proposal
Box/Folder 1 : 14
Friends of Japanese Americans
Box/Folder 1 : 21
Alien Land Law and escheat cases
Box/Folder 1 : 24
Senate Committee on Military Affairs recommendation
Box/Folder 1 : 25
Prohibited zones/Restricted zones
Box/Folder 1 : 27
Goleta submarine and Los Angeles nervous
Box/Folder 1 : 30
WCCA Mar. 14, 1942 /WRA Mar. 18
Box/Folder 2 : 6
How it seemed after they left
Box/Folder 2 : 7
Farm operation transfers and other evacuation procedure
Box/Folder 2 : 9
May 8 - San Jose liquor licenses
Box/Folder 2 : 11
Leaving homes/Later losses
Box/Folder 2 : 12
Chapter 5 Orders and movement
Box/Folder 2 : 17
News and news from outside
Box/Folder 2 : 25
Settling down (WRA words)
Box/Folder 2 : 28
Relationship with outside
Box/Folder 2 : 38
Censorship - other than news
Box/Folder 2 : 39
Japanese culture allowed in camps
Box/Folder 2 : 40
The Great Rejection/1942 FDR order and results
Box/Folder 3 : 4
Attempt to open up service
Box/Folder 3 : 7
Japanese language 1942 and intelligence
Box/Folder 3 : 8
Nisei in service (military)
Box/Folder 3 : 10
Mrs. Roosevelt - Gila May 1943
Box/Folder 3 : 21
Segregation after registration
Box/Folder 3 : 28
Tule Lake after segregation/riot
Box/Folder 3 : 30
Beautification and improvement/vegetable gardens
Box/Folder 4 : 1
More permanent leaves 1942 on
Box/Folder 4 : 8
Immigration and naturalization
Box/Folder 4 : 12
Japanese American leaders
Box/Folder 4 : 13
Economics of discrimination/Social follows
Box/Folder 4 : 17
Discrimination today/late 1960s
Box 5
SOURCES AND RESEARCH MATERIALS, 1941-1978
Box/Folder 5 : 6
Camps under Internal Security Act of 1950 - since repealed
Box/Folder 5 : 7
Educational aspect of the Japanese evacuation problem
Box/Folder 5 : 8
Evacuation from Terminal Island
Box/Folder 5 : 9
FDR Correspondence on evacuation
Box/Folder 5 : 11
Japanese American renunciant cases
Box/Folder 5 : 15
Life in relocation centers
Box/Folder 5 : 16
Nisei in the armed service and official communiqués
Box/Folder 6 : 3
Problems at time of evacuation 1942
Box/Folder 6 : 5
Renunciation of citizenship, repatriates, restitution
Box/Folder 6 : 6
Sentiment about Japanese returning to California from camps
Box/Folder 6 : 8
Tule Lake Center where supposedly pro-Japan evacuees were segregated
Tape cabinet
PHONOTAPES 1970
Physical Description: 3 tapes
Scope and Content Note
Sound recordings of five oral history interviews conducted by Anne Loftis
Sound recording of Dr. C. H. Lochlin and Mrs. C. H. Lochlin 1970 June 24
Note
The Lochlins live at 1732 Buchanen St., East Marysville, California. Tape 1. Use copy reference number: 71032_a_0008175 part
1, number 1
Sound recording of Mrs. Walter Sharp and Mrs. Harris' mother undated
Scope and Content Note
They talk about the San Francisco earthquake. Tape 1. Use copy reference number: 71032_a_0008175 part 1, number 2 and part
2, number 1
Sound recording of Khatchik Minasian 1970 May 5
Note
Tape 1. Use copy reference number: 71032_a_0008175 part 2, number 2
Sound recording of Carlton A. Sheffield 1970 June 7
Note
Tapes 1-2. Use copy reference number: 71032_a_0008175 part 2, number 3 and part 3
Sound recording of Peter Jamero 1970 May 18
Note
Tapes 2-3. Use copy reference number: 71032_a_0008175 parts 4-6
