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Call Number: SC0528
Creator:
Fast, Emory.
Title: Emory Fast letters to his wife Ethel Barker Fast
Dates: 1944-1945
Physical Description:
0.25 Linear feet
Summary: Fast's personal letters to his wife, Sept. 1944 and August to December 1945 when he was located in Santa Rose, CA, include
mention of other WRA personnel, his visits to Japanese internment camps, and his work relocating Japanese Americans into towns
and jobs after the war, especially in Northern California and the Central Valley. Many Japanese families are mentioned by
name, along with local reactions, both positive and negative, to their return.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Gift of Emory Fast, 1993.
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
Emory Fast Letters to His Wife Ethel Barker Fast (SC0528). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Emory Fast, who earned a degree in political science at Stanford University in 1938, worked for the War Relocation Authority
during World War II.
Fast's personal letters to his wife, Sept. 1944 and August to December 1945 when he was located in Santa Rose, CA, include
mention of other WRA personnel, his visits to Japanese internment camps, and his work relocating Japanese Americans into towns
and jobs after the war, especially in Northern California and the Central Valley. Many Japanese families are mentioned by
name, along with local reactions, both positive and negative, to their return.
Fast, Emory.
Fast, Ethel Barker.
United States. War Relocation Authority.
Japanese American evacuation and resettlement
Japanese Americans--California, Northern.
World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans.