Japanese Boy Scouts from Amache Relocation Center at Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park, 1943
This photograph of Boy Scouts at Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde National Park was included in the August 1943 narrative report created by Jesse L. Nusbaum, superintendent of the park. These second and third generation Japanese-American boys were not in the park on a pleasure visit. They were there to dismantle an abandoned Civilian Conservation Corps camp for transport back to the Amache Relocation Center at Granada, CO, where they lived.
The National Archives at Denver holds reports, correspondence, and administrative records of the Southwest, Rocky Mountain, and Intermountain Regions of the National Park Service, as well as a number of individual National Parks and Monuments.
Our office holds records relating to the experience of Japanese Americans at War Relocation Authority Centers in the intermountain west in various groups of records, including the National Park Service, Bureau of Reclamation, and the U.S. District Courts.
Japanese Boy Scouts from Amache Relocation Center, Granada, Colorado, in Cliff Palace, 1943. National Archives Identifier 360021839.
View and download the image of Japanese Boy Scouts at Mesa Verde National Park in the National Archives Catalog. This photograph is one example of the many records held at the National Archives at Denver. You can explore more of our holdings through the National Archives Catalog or by visiting the National Archives at Denver in person. This record is located within Record Group 79: Records of the National Park Service, Series: Administrative Records, 1927–1953. Many of the records in this collection have yet to be digitized.