Finding Aid to the Rosalie H. Wax Papers 1943-1990

Processed by Elizabeth Stephens. Digital content added in 2017.

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000

Phone: (510) 642-6481

Fax: (510) 642-7589

Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu

1996

Finding Aid to the Rosalie H. Wax Papers 1943-1990

Collection number: BANC MSS 83/115 c

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000

Phone: (510) 642-6481

Fax: (510) 642-7589

Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu

Finding Aid Author(s):: Processed by Elizabeth Stephens. Digital content added in 2017.
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Collection Summary

Collection Title: Rosalie H. Wax Papers

Date (inclusive): 1943-1990

Collection Number: BANC MSS 83/115 c

Creator: Wax, Rosalie H.

Extent: Number of containers: 10 boxes Linear feet: 4.2

Repository: The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000

Phone: (510) 642-6481

Fax: (510) 642-7589

Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu

Abstract: Consists chiefly of a 1981-1982 revision of her Tule Lake field notes, written for the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study in 1944-1945, while Wax was at the Relocation Center near Newell, Calif. The revision, funded by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, includes a first and final draft, plus interviews conducted in 1981-1982 with former internees at Tule Lake, and longitudinal oral histories (Wax's term) created from the field notes and interviews. Additional material includes drafts of an unpublished book, articles and papers based on the revision, correspondence regarding the revision, and miscellaneous writings by internees and other researchers regarding the internment.

Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English

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Information for Researchers

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Rosalie H. Wax Papers, BANC MSS 83/115 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Tule Lake Relocation Center

Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945

Field notes

Administrative Information

Acquistion Information

The Rosalie H. Wax Papers were given to The Bancroft Library by Rosalie Hankey Wax on March 3, 1983. Additions were made by Murray L. Wax on Feb. 7, 1995.

Processing Information

Funding for processing provided by Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA), Title III: Networking, Preservation and Statewide Resource-sharing grant for the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Records Project, 1994-1996. Funding for digitization was provided by the National Park Service through the Japanese American Confinement Sites grant program in 2017.

This project was funded, in part, by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of the Interior.

Scope and Content

The Rosalie H. Wax Papers are built around a 1981-1982 revision, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, of her Tule Lake field notes, written for the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study in 1944-1945. The collection contains a final and first draft of the revised field notes, plus interviews conducted in 1981-1982 with former internees at Tule Lake, and longitudinal oral histories (Wax's term) created from the field notes and interviews. Additional material includes drafts of an unpublished book, articles, and papers based on the revision, correspondence regarding the revision, and miscellaneous writings by internees and other researchers regarding the internment.

Rosalie Hankey Wax, Professor of Anthropology and Education at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1973 to 1981, was a staff researcher for the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS) at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1943-1945. In June 1943, JERS sent Wax (then Rosalie Hankey) to the Gila Relocation Center at Rivers, Arizona. She was transferred to the Tule Lake Relocation Center near Newell, California, in February 1944 where she spent the next fifteen months. Wax's book, "Doing Fieldwork: Warnings and Advice", published in 1971, uses her experience at Gila and Tule Lake to develop and illustrate her approach to anthropological fieldwork.

Copies of Wax's original field notes and other reports for JERS are included with the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Records(BANC MSS 67/14 c)

SERIES 1: CORRESPONDENCE AND GRANT PROPOSALS, 1946-1990.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically, and then chronologically.

Scope and Content Note

Contains primarily incoming correspondence, with outgoing correspondence interfiled.

box 1, folder 1

Bridges, Noriko (Nikki) Sawada 1978-84 BANC MSS 83/115 c