Edward Norton Barnhart was a professor of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley and also served as bibliographer for the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Collection there. This collection consists of copies and originals of reports, research papers, and publications related to the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Collection Study and includes War Relocation Authority (WRA) publications and statistical reports on evacuation and resettlement. The collection also includes correspondence of the Tajiris, mostly regarding the preparation of a pamphlet on the Japanese American war efforts, as well as a small collection of personal records of Peruvian Japanese and their families interned at Santa Fe and Crystal City from the law offices of Wayne M. Collins. Materials in this collection are primarily in English with some in Japanese.

Edward Norton Barnhart (1909-1988), Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, served as bibliographer for the university's Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS) collection. The JERS project received the Woodrow Wilson Award of the American Political Science Association for the most distinguished work in political science published in 1954. As the bibliographer, he was responsible for creating an inventory for the collection.

6 boxes (3 linear ft.)

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