Yearbook, Poston 2, 1944
date: label: date made
content: circa 1944
notes: label: Description
content: This yearbook is the 1944 edition of the El Chaparral, published by the Associated Students of Poston Two High School in Poston, Arizona. This yearbook's foreward states that the students have been looking forward to the time they could leave the prison camp and return to their towns, cities, farms, colleges, technical and trade schools, and the armed forces.
label: Description
content: The students made the best of their life at the Poston, Arizona prison camp, joining recreational, sport, and other club teams to pass the time and better themselves.
label: Description
content: Poston was located in Yuma Country in Arizona, and was composed of three separate camps arranged three miles from each other. Housing was inadequate and hard on the elderly and the ill; the lack of privacy was also a difficulty.
label: Description
content: Prisoners who had jobs were only paid from $12 to $19 a month. The quality of education for chlidren was poor as there was a shortage of materials and qualified teachers.
label: Description
content: Despite this struggle, the prisoners tried to make the best out of their situation and focused on bettering themselves and their community.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Japanese American
label: See more items in
content: Executive Order 9066
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: gift of Fusae Kagimoto
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.3120.09
label: nonaccession number
content: 2016.3120
label: catalog number
content: 2016.3120.09
objectType: label: Object Name
content: yearbook
label: Object Name
content: Yearbook
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 8 3/4 in x 1/4 in; 27.94 cm x 22.225 cm x .635 cm