Register of the Joseph Conard and Josephine Whitney Duveneck collection
Finding aid prepared by Hoover Institution Library and Archives Staff
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2008
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Title: Joseph Conard and Josephine Whitney Duveneck collection
Date (inclusive): 1940-1946
Collection Number: XX032
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
5 manuscript boxes
(2.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Pamphlets, reprints, newsletters, clippings, reports, letters, and notes, relating to conditions in the Japanese relocation
camps in the United States during World War II.
source:
Conard, Joseph
Creator:
Duveneck, Josephine Whitney, 1891-1978
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Use
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquisition Information
The collection was given to the Hoover Institution by Mr. Joseph Conard and Mrs. F.S. Duveneck of the American Friends Service
Committee, San Francisco.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Joseph Conard and Josephine Whitney Duveneck collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover
Institution Library & Archives.
Scope and Content of Collection
Pamphlets, reprints, newsletters, clippings, reports, letters, and notes, relating to conditions in the Japanese relocation
camps in the United States during World War II.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States
Conard, Joseph
Newsletters of various organizations concerned with justice for Japanese Americans
Scope and Contents note
[The quality of these materials varies widely from the excellent Resettlement Bulletin of the Committee on Resettlement of
Japanese Americans to the Pastoral Letter which is of dubious value as research material.]
box 1
Japanese-American Committee for Democracy Newsletter
July 1944 - August 1946
box 1
Committee on Resettlement of Japanese Americans, Resettlement Bulletin
April 1943 - April 1946
box 1
Japanese-American Relations Committee, Information Bulletin
March 1942-February 1946
box 1
Friends of the American Way, 3 newsletters
undated
box 1
Pastoral Letter to All Friends of Oriental American Peace and Justice newsletter
May 24, 1940
box 1
Japan Friends' News, newsletter
undated
box 1
California Fellowship of Reconciliation, newsletter
April 2, 1943
Relocation of Japanese American students materials
box 1
Gordon Hirabayashi Defense Committee, 1 letter
April 16, 1943
box 1
National Japanese American Student Relocation Council, minutes of meetings, reports, etc.
September 1943
October
1943
box 1
Reprint of article on relocation of American-Japanese Students from the Journal of the Association of Collegiate Registrars
April
1943
box 1
Printed list of Educational Institutions Attended by Relocated Students
undated
box 1
Printed (private) Directory of American Students of Japanese Ancestry in Schools of Higher Education
box 1
Printed Study of Vocational Experiences of University of California Alumni of Japanese Ancestry
box 1
Application form for employment
box 1
Report of an incident of possible discrimination against a relocated nurse
box 1
National Student Relocation Council, newsletters and progress reports, a series of copies of relocation applications sent
to the War Relocation Authority by MSEC on behalf of individual students
July 1942 - February 1943
box 1
Newspaper clippings
Scope and Contents note
envelope of undated California newspaper clippings and items from the following newspapers and magazines:
Baltimore Sun, Collier's, Yankee Army Weekly, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, San Francisco Chronicle, Palo Alto Times, New World-Sun
Daily, Japanese American News, The Utah Nippo, The Progressive (Madison, Wisconsin), The Woodland Democrat, The Home Front
Commando, The Civil Liberties Quarterly and The American Civil Liberties Union News (September, 1942 - March, 1945), The Pacific
Citizen (several editions), The Newell Star, The Manzanar Free Press, The Santa Anita Pacemaker (several editions), and The
Granada Pioneer (several editions)
[This collection is so diverse that it defies any useful organization. The Home Front Commando is a good illustration of violently
anti-Japanese sentiment. The camp publications from Manzanar, Santa Anita, Granada, and Newell and the American Civil Liberties
Union articles are particularly interesting.]
personal letters and papers
box 1
to George Tolson from N. Kodaira; Japanese in Seattle, Washington
March
1942
box 1
to Kiss Nichols from Mr. Chiura Obata; acknowledgement of reciept of gifts
June 18, 1942
box 1
to Mrs. Duveneck from Peggy Hayes AFSC business
June 24, 1942
box 1
to Mr. C. Obata from unknown; reply
July 1
l942
box 1
to Dr. R. Jones from George New; religious education in evacuation centers
July 2, 1942
box 1
to Dr. J. Carpenter from unknown; education in evacuation centers
Jan. 19, 1943
box 1
to Dr. R. Jones from unknown; recommendation for Miss Helen
Feb. 1, 1943
box 1
to Friends Meeting House Rhoda Dickinson; a gift of $15.36
July 23, 1943
box 1
to Mr. Bryant from Mrs. E. Pendleton; a collection of clippings accompanied letter
Aug. 3, 1943
box 1
to Rhoda Dickinson from Mrs. D Duveneck; acknowledgement of gift of July 23, 1943
Aug. 12, 1943
box 1
to Mrs. Van Wormer from Mrs. Duveneck; correspondence on relocation in East
Aug. 13, 1943
box 1
to Mrs. Duveneck from Frank Osasa; personal letter
Aug. 22, 1943
box 1
to Mrs. Duveneck from unknown; regarding Miss T. Washino
Sept. 18, 1943
box 1
to unknown father from unknown son; printed reproduction of letter from a Nisei soldier
Nov. 20, 1943
box 1
to Mrs. Duveneck from Yukiko Suzuki; personal letter
Nov. 21, 1943
box 1
to Mrs. Duveneck from James Azuma; personal letter
Dec. 23, 1943
box 1
to Miss Duveneck from Mr. and Mrs. H. Hida; personal letter
Jan. 3, 1944
box 1
to Mrs. Duveneck from Tak Matsui; personal letter
Jan. 19, 1944
box 1
to Miss Duveneck from Violet Takeshita; personal letter
Jan. 21, 1944
box 1
to Miss Duveneck from D. Asano; personal letter
Jan. 22, 1944
box 1
to Mrs. Duveneck from Amy Yamanihi; personal letter
Feb. 4, 1944
box 1
to Miss Duveneck from Grace Tanabe; personal letter
Feb. 16, 1944
box 1
Commentary on radio discussion
Aug. 29, 1944.
Scope and Contents note
Question: What to do with the Japanese now in the internment camps in America and whether or not they should be allowed to
return to the Pacific Coast. The questions were asked to young children in San Francisco
box 1
to Mrs. Duveneck from Esther Rhoads; poem written by Idella Stone
Dec. 2, 1944
box 1
Dramatic reading by Dave Tatsuno, Topaz High School
December 22, 1944
Pamphlets and reprints
Scope and Contents note
[This collection of pamphlets and reprints is an excellent source of materials for a wide variety of research projects.It
is a useful index to the activities of many organizations seeking to educate various sectors of their communities on the question
of Japanese Americans during wartime.]
box 2
Questions and Answers for Evacuees
box 2
Pertinent Facts about Relocation Centers and Japanese-Americans
box 2
Relocation of Japanese-Americans
box 2
Relocation Communities for Wartime
box 2
Evacuees Challenge to Democracy
Publications from
Relocation Centers
box 2
The Japanese
Evacuation
and the Minority Problem
(Heart Mountain)
box 2
Christmas Collection of Prose and Poetry (Poston)
Miscellaneous pamphlets from a wide variety of sources
box 2
Fellowship of Reconciliation
box 2
various church groups, including Colorado Council of Churches
box 2
American Friends Service Committee
box 2
The Committee for Resettlement of Japanese-Americans National Japanese American Student Relocation Council Citizens Committee
for Resettlement Post War World Council University of Chicago Roundtable, and University of California Roundtable
box 2
Universities Committee on Post-Jar International Problems
box 2
Japanese American Citizens League
box 2
Pacific Coast Committee on American Principle and Fair Play
box 2
Territorial Emergency Service Committees
box 2
reprints of various articles about Japanese-Americans from sources such as
The Commonweal, Readers Digest, and other publications
box 2
Copies of
True Comics, Nippon to America, The Bussei Life
War Relocation Authority (WRA) and Congressional reports
box 2
The Japanese Question, a speech by Senator Homer T. Bone of Washington. Senate
September 10, 1942
box 2
Segregation of Loyal and Disloyal Japanese in Relocation Centers, a message from President Roosevelt
September 14, 1943
box 2
Report, Second Territorial Conference-Morale and Emergency Service Committees
July 21-23, 1944
box 2
The California Civic Unity Call for Immediate Action
September 16, 1946
box 2
"Religion and Economics" by Toyohiko Kagawa, 1929 from
Labour Speaks for Itself on Religion
box 2
Miscellaneous War Relocation Authority (WRA) materials: policy statements, definitions of functions and duties, clarification
of facts concerning camp life, protest incidents, and accidents, speeches by WRA officials; WRA position on Japanese American
loyalty, and other materials
box 2
2 sheets of "a review of West Coast newspaper items in the past month ending July 15 and indicating attitude."
box 2
copies of public statements by Joseph Grew, the Honolulu Police Department, the Chief of Military Information in Hawaii, and
J. Edgar Hoover on the loyalty of Japanese Americans
box 2
resolutions adopted by various organizations concerning Japanese Americans copies of newspaper articles, radio editorials,
etc. concerning the records of Nisei soldiers and the loyalty of Japanese Americans
box 2
Newsletter from "Conference between Americans of Occidental and Oriental Ancestry"
January 13, 1941
box 2
Forum on Japanese Americans in the Victory program
undated
box 2
C.P.M. Information for members and prospects
box 2
"The United States- Japan Conflict" by Bertram Pickard
December 8, 1941
Notebooks of miscellaneous materials on Japanese Americans during the initial months of World War II
box 3
Notebook
December 1941-February 1942
Scope and Contents note
Contains a summary of Proclamations of President of the U.S. Dec 7, and 18, 1941 and Jan 14, 1942; newspaper clippings; minutes
of meetings and reports of the American Friends Service Committee; one copy (January 1942) of
Current Life, a national Nesei magazine; correspondence with Mrs. Duveneck (includes Esther B. Rhodes letter, March 3, 1942); minutes
of a meeting of the Immigrant Serving Agencies of the Community Chest of San Francisco Information; bulletins of the Japanese
American Relations Committee; a Plan for Government Sponsored Farm and Craft Resettlement for People of Japanese Parentage,
proposed by a member of a Nisei organization; report to and from Raymond Booth; Letter from Lincoln Kanai Dec 1941; NRS Bulletin
Feb 20, 1942; FBI Raid in Mountain View Feb 21, 1942; questionnaire for resettlement; Presidential Proclamation #2526 Dec
15, 1942; statement from Mike Masaoka Jan 7, 1942; discussion of Japanese Situation at Executive Committee meeting Feb 7;
Committee of Immigrant Serving Agencies minutes Jan 30, 1942; and statement Received from Mike Masaoka Jan 7, 1942
box 3
Notebook
March 1942
Scope and Contents note
Contains miscellaneous materials about the first few months of the war and the decision to evacuate Japanese Americans. The
materials included are newspaper clippings (primarily from Bay Area newspapers), magazine articles, American Friends Service
Committee Bulletins, and personal letters.
box 3
Notebook
April 1942
Scope and Contents note
Contains miscellaneous materials concerned primarily with the initial months of evacuation. The materials include newspaper
clippings, pamphlets, American Friends Service Committee Bulletins, personal letters (some giving impressions of assembly
centers), and magazine articles.
box 3
Miscellaneous materials
Scope and Contents note
The folder includes: one brief program sheet of a Brotherhood Pageant at Tule Lake; one sheet published by the Denver and
Colorado Councils of Churches criticizing anti-Japanese American hate propaganda; a four-page collection of statistics on
relocated students; a three-page outline of the staff and program of the Tanforan Camp Art School; minutes of meetings of
the American Friends Service Committee; and two unidentifiable fragments of reports
Notebooks of miscellaneous materials
May-December, l942
box 4
Notebook
May 1942
Scope and Contents note
Articles: report of San Francisco Friends Center May 9-June 8, 1942; Wartime Civil Control Administration May 1942; excerpts
from Letters from Japanese Evacuees May 25, 1942; American Friends Service Committee Bulletins May 1942; Public Affairs News
Service Bulletin No. VI May 12; The People Nobody Wants; Evacuation by H.V. and M.M. Nicholson, National Refugee Service;
special information bulletin, Tanforan: Report on Conditions in Camp as of May 9, 1942; Japanese Evacuation Reports, #4, 11,
12, Have We Forgotten Justice? by Caleb Foote, Newspaper clippings, and letters to Mrs. Duveneck, to Homer Morris May 25,
1942, from Fred H. May 6, 1942, from Grace May 19, 1942, and to Walter Homan May 30, 1942
box 4
Notebook
June-August 1942
Scope and Contents note
Contains clippings and assorted materials contain a good deal of information on the initial problems of
evacuation
and the
relocation
centers. Among the highlights are: Annual Report of the American Civil Liberties Union(June 1941-June 1942) publications
of the Fellowship of Reconciliation National Student Relocation Council; miscellaneous correspondence and reports of the Pacific
Coast American Friends Service Committee, including a personal account of a visit with Gordon Hirabayashi; Justice for the
Evacuees June 10, 1942; Moving the West-Coast Japanese Article undated; Special Release on Japanese
Evacuation Test Case July 20, 1942; Report on Minandoka
Relocation
Project, ID Aug 1 and Tulelake Relocation Center, CA Aug 3;
box 4
Notebook
September-December 1942
Scope and Contents note
The material includes: miscellaneous correspondence with Mrs. Duveneck [the lengthier typewritten letters from people within
the relocation centers are quite informative]; newspaper clippings; Japanese American Relocation Committee Information Bulletins;
one copy of
Survey Graphic (Sept. 1942), a magazine of social interpretation; Fellowship of Reconciliation Newsletter and publication
Outcasts!; a copy of a speech by Bradford Smith before the Japanese American Committee for Democracy In New York (December 6, 1942);
picture of Heart Mountain in Wyoming; article from "The Christian Century" Nov. 18, 1942;
The Resettlement of American-Born Japanese by George E. Rundquist Oct. 28; Remember Pearl Harbor meeting Dec. 6, 1942; The Guns of Toulon Nov. 27, 1942
box 5
Notebook
January-June 1943
Scope and Contents note
Contains materials about l)life in the relocation centers and 2)the enlistment of Japanese Americans in the armed forces.
The materials included are primarily newspaper clippings and bulletins of the American Friends Service Committee.
box 5
Notebook
July-December 1943
Scope and Contents note
Miscellaneous collection of materials dealing with 1) Japanese American soldiers and 2)problems at the Tule Lake center in
November 1943.
box 5
Notebook
1943-1944
Scope and Contents note
Contains assorted issues of the following three publications: War Relocation Authority newsletters', July 26, 1943-Nov. 22,
1943, Japanese American Committee for Democracy newsletters, Feb. 1943-Jan. 1944, and Resettlement Bulletin, Sept. 1943-June
1944
box 5
Notebook
1944
Scope and Contents note
Contains miscellaneous newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and newsletters of various organizations. [much of the material is
duplicated elsewhere in the collection]. Among the highlights of the notebook are: Japanese American Relations Committee Information
Bulletins, a publication describing Amache, and a copy of the
Far Eastern Survey.
box 5
File of articles
circa 1944