William J. Mountin material relating to forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans
Scope and Contents
Consists of various materials collected and maintained by William J. Mountin, gathered in the course of his work in the Statistical Branch of the Wartime Civilian Control Administration (WCCA). Includes War Relocation Authority (WRA) and WCCA correspondence and memos concerning the administration of the office in San Francisco; copies of statistical reports and bulletins, including those compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau; sample forms, reports, maps, bulletins, and Civilian Exclusion Orders and Instruction broadsides; ephemeral publications of various official organizations concerned with the administration of the U.S. Army Western Defense Command office, including directories and organizational charts; and clippings. Also included is a handbook, or notebook, assembled from copies of executive orders and supporting materials. The handbook is one of five or six copies that existed for use by WCCA supervising officers.
Dates
- 1940-1942
Creator
- Mountin, William J. (Person)
- United States. Army. Western Defense Command and Fourth Army (Organization)
- United States. War Relocation Authority (Organization)
- United States. Wartime Civil Control Administration (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Because of the assembled nature of this collection, copyright status varies across the collection. Copyright is assumed to be held by the original creator of individual items in the collection. Unpublished works are expected to pass into the public domain 120 years after their creation; works published before 1923 have entered the public domain. The California Historical Society (CHS) is not authorized to grant permission to publish or reproduce materials from this collection. For more information, please contact rights@calhist.org.
Biographical sketch
William J(ohn) Mountin (b. 14 Nov. 1901) was employed by the Statistical Branch of the Wartime Civil Control Administration, under the Assistant Chief of Staff for Civil Affairs, Western Defense Command and Fourth Army.
Extent
0.5 linear feet (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
William J(ohn) Mountin (b. 14 Nov. 1901) was employed by the Statistical Branch of the Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA), under the Assistant Chief of Staff for Civil Affairs, Western Defense Command and Fourth Army. Established in March of 1942 by order of General John DeWitt, the WCCA oversaw the forced removal of roughly 120,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast, and administered detention camps called “temporary assembly centers.” In the late summer and fall of 1942, the WCCA transferred incarcerees to longer-term camps run by the War Relocation Authority (WRA). The WCCA was dissolved on March 15, 1943. Mountin collected and maintained the materials included in this collection through the course of his work at the WCCA. The material consists of memos, reports, bulletins, forms, reports, maps, Civilian Exclusion Orders, broadsides, ephemera and publications related to the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans.
Arrangement
Contents of notebook have been foldered separately, in their original order.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of William J. Mountin, 1973.
Existence and Location of Copies
Items from the collection have been digitized and are available online through the California Historical Society Digital Library. These items, as well as duplicates of many of the maps, memos, bulletins, broadsides, and official WCCA documents also present in the John M. Flaherty Collection of Japanese Internment Records, MSS.2006.05.02, at San Jose State University Special Collections and Archive are also available through the CSU Japanese American Digitization Project at https://csujad.com.
General
Formerly described as Executive Order 9066 records, 1942-1945, and as William J. Mountin material relating to Japanese-American evacuation.
General
Material from this collection was digitized as part of the CSU Japanese American Digitization project. https://csujad.com/
- Broadsides
- Japanese Americans -- California
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
- Japanese Americans -- United States -- History
- Maps
- Statisticians -- California
- Statistics
- United States. Army. Western Defense Command and Fourth Army
- United States. Wartime Civil Control Administration
- World War II -- Incarceration camps
- World War II -- Mass removal ('Evacuation')
- World War II -- Temporary Assembly Centers
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians
- Title
- Finding aid to the William J. Mountin material relating to forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, 1940-1942,
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid encoded by Al Bersch in 2021, using description from existing catalog records.
- Date
- January 2022
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English
Repository Details
Part of the California Historical Society Repository