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Register of the Harold S. Jacoby Nisei Collection,
1942-46
Mss27
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Title: Harold S. Jacoby Nisei Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1942-46
Collection number: Mss27
Creator:
Harold S. Jacoby
Extent: 3 linear ft.
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of
Special Collections
Stockton, CA 95211
Shelf location: For current information on the location of
these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language: English.
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item], Harold S. Jacoby Nisei Collection, Mss27,
Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific
Library
Dr. Harold Jacoby was a Professor of Sociology and Dean of the College
of the Pacific (1933-1969). Jacoby was also a member of the staff of the Tule
Lake Relocation Center in California (1942), the Japanese-American Resettlement
Program in Chicago (1943), and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Program in the Middle East (1944). Early in World War II Harold Jacoby was
employed by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), which had responsibility for
the relocation of Japanese-Americans. He was in charge of security at Tule Lake
internment camp during the first year of its existence. In mid-1943, those
internees who refused to sign a U.S. Loyalty Oath were removed from other camps
and segregated in the camp at Tule Lake. At this time, Jacoby left Tule Lake
for Chicago where he worked with the Japanese-American Resettlement Program
assisting Japanese Americans seeking to leave the camps to find employment.
Jacoby has published a memoir of the period:
Tule Lake:
From Relocation to Segregation
(1997).
The collection includes WRA reports and other printed materials,
periodical articles both by Japanese Americans and by others, field notes,
internment camp newspapers and highschool yearbooks, clippings, and ephemera
relating to the Japanese-American relocation. It contains materials pertaining
to nearly all of the ten internment camps, but is strongest in materials from
Granada (Colorado) and from Tule Lake. The collection is arranged
chronologically with items boxed together according to type: Boxes 1-2: War
Relocation Authority publications; Box 3: Other US government agency
publications; Box 4: Japanese-American community publications; Box 5: The
national press; and, Box 6: Correspondence, unpublished writings and
ephemera.