McGehee, Arkansas relocation camp mail
Object Details
- Description
- Following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. military relocated thousands of citizens who had emigrated from countries with which the U.S. was now at war. An internee in the Rohwer War Relocation Center in McGehee, Arkansas, one of the smallest relocation camps, posted this cover.
- Credit line
- Bequest of Harriett M. Leach
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- April 12, 1943
- Object number
- 0.260305.47.6.2
- Type
- Covers & Associated Letters
- Medium
- paper; ink
- Dimensions
- Height x Width: 3 5/8 x 6 1/2 in. (9.21 x 16.51 cm)
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- On View
- Currently on exhibit at the National Postal Museum
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 805
- Topic
- Covers & Letters
- Record ID
- npm_0.260305.47.6.2
