Hand-drawn map of Crystal City internment camp, Texas

Description:

Unlike Japanese Americans, who were detained by the military, Japanese Peruvians were detained by the Justice Department. The Justice Department incarcerated Japanese Peruvians and other Latin Americans along with Germans and Italian aliens at Crystal City, Texas. The map shown here was drawn by an internee. Despite the seemingly suburban elements of the camp - the soccer field, the school, the community hall - note the armed guards and watchtowers on the perimeter of the camp.

Provider:

Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Resource Class:

Maps

Date Issued:

1945

Spatial Coverage:

New Jersey

Rights:

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Rights Holder:

Seabrook Farms

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

PDF

More details at:

https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/49477