Description
William J(ohn) Mountin (b. 14 Nov.
1901) was employed by the Statistical Branch of the Wartime Civil Control Administration
(WCCA), under the Assistant Chief of Staff for Civil Affairs, Western Defense Command and
Fourth Army. Established in March of 1942 by order of General John DeWitt, the WCCA oversaw
the forced removal of roughly 120,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast, and
administered detention camps called "temporary assembly centers." In the late summer and
fall of 1942, the WCCA transferred incarcerees to longer-term camps run by the War
Relocation Authority (WRA). The WCCA was dissolved on March 15, 1943. Mountin collected and
maintained the materials included in this collection through the course of his work at the
WCCA. The material consists of memos, reports, bulletins, forms, reports, maps, Civilian
Exclusion Orders, broadsides, ephemera and publications related to the forced removal and
incarceration of Japanese Americans.
Background
William J(ohn) Mountin (b. 14 Nov. 1901) was employed by the Statistical Branch of the
Wartime Civil Control Administration, under the Assistant Chief of Staff for Civil Affairs,
Western Defense Command and Fourth Army.
Restrictions
Because of the assembled nature of this collection, copyright status varies across the
collection. Copyright is assumed to be held by the original creator of individual items in
the collection. Unpublished works are expected to pass into the public domain 120 years
after their creation; works published before 1923 have entered the public domain. The
California Historical Society (CHS) is not authorized to grant permission to publish or
reproduce materials from this collection. For more information, please contact
rights@calhist.org.