Tule Lake

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Hokoku Seinen Dan bugle corps (ddr-densho-37-183)
img Hokoku Seinen Dan bugle corps (ddr-densho-37-183)
Original WRA caption: Bugle Corps of Hokoku Seinen Dan gather at Gate 1 to give proper send off to 125 of their number being sent to Santa Fe Internment Camp March 4, 1945.
Sixth-grade students (ddr-densho-37-74)
img Sixth-grade students (ddr-densho-37-74)
Original WRA caption: Sixth grade pupils in the classroom. Miss Mae Hert is the teacher.
Japanese Americans making tofu (ddr-densho-37-155)
img Japanese Americans making tofu (ddr-densho-37-155)
Original WRA caption: The precipitate is put into forms and pressed. Later it is cut into smaller cakes and kept in water as shown. Tofu is a kind of "bean curd" considered essential to the Japanese diet. Other pictures in this group show the various processes in the manufacture of this product. To preserve it is …
Camp new arrivals (ddr-densho-37-300)
img Camp new arrivals (ddr-densho-37-300)
Original WRA caption: People from the Manzanar Relocation Center were moved to the Tule Lake Segregation Center and quartered in the ten blocks which had been built as an addition at Tule Lake. They arrived in four special trains and were taken directly from the railroad to their new homes. A total of 1876 people came …
Hog farm (ddr-densho-37-80)
img Hog farm (ddr-densho-37-80)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. A view of hogs at the temporary hog farm at this relocation center.
Muddy conditions (ddr-densho-37-349)
img Muddy conditions (ddr-densho-37-349)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Thaws turn the streets and firebreaks into seas of mud, and makes difficult motor transportation through the center.
Fifth-grade girls playing (ddr-densho-37-77)
img Fifth-grade girls playing (ddr-densho-37-77)
Original WRA caption: The girls of the lower fifth grade, taught by Mrs. Rhoda McGarva, are here shown playing "Two Deep."
Japanese American loading freight train (ddr-densho-37-265)
img Japanese American loading freight train (ddr-densho-37-265)
Original WRA caption: Volunteer evacuee worker helps load freight on train.
Barber shop (ddr-densho-37-384)
img Barber shop (ddr-densho-37-384)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Motimer Cooke, Supervisor of Community Enterprises, enjoys the first hair-cut given in the barber shop at this War Relocation Authority center. Frances Imura, evacuee from Sacramento is the barber.
Harvest Festival (ddr-densho-37-86)
img Harvest Festival (ddr-densho-37-86)
Original WRA caption: Harvest Festival crowds.
Poultry farm (ddr-densho-37-180)
img Poultry farm (ddr-densho-37-180)
Original WRA caption: M. Nakamura, poultry caretaker, and former farmer of Sacramento, California, feeds four months old chickens. It is anticipated, that the chickens grown here, will furnish the residents of the project with all the eggs and chicken meat which will be consumed. These chickens were raised from baby chicks.
Japanese Americans sorting turnips (ddr-densho-37-315)
img Japanese Americans sorting turnips (ddr-densho-37-315)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Evacuee workers in the packing shed, sorting and packing turnips which have been grown on the farm near this relocation center.
Construction of barracks (ddr-densho-37-256)
img Construction of barracks (ddr-densho-37-256)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Construction of this War Relocation Authority center has commenced. Approximately 10,000 evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed here for the duration.
Co-op canteen (ddr-densho-37-151)
img Co-op canteen (ddr-densho-37-151)
Original WRA caption: This shows outside of Canteen (general store) operated by the Co-operative Enterprises, Inc. The large size sign says there is to be a big sale of hardware, drugs, cosmetics, etc. The sign, upper right, is a notice of a Buddhist lecture[.] [I]t has no connection with the Co-op.
Nursery school child (ddr-densho-37-164)
img Nursery school child (ddr-densho-37-164)
Original WRA caption: Little nursery school girl singing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.
Harvest Festival (ddr-densho-37-69)
img Harvest Festival (ddr-densho-37-69)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. A scene at the Harvest Festival held at this relocation center.
Hokoku Joshi Seinin Dan morning drill (ddr-densho-37-110)
img Hokoku Joshi Seinin Dan morning drill (ddr-densho-37-110)
Original WRA caption: "Hokoku Joshi Seinin Dan at early morning drill." The correct title of this group may be Hokoku Joshi Seinen Dan.
Japanese Americans making tofu (ddr-densho-37-153)
img Japanese Americans making tofu (ddr-densho-37-153)
Original WRA caption: Note: The markings on the blackboard, upper right, show the Japanese way of counting in fives to show number of buckets of beans processed. The bucket on the lower right contains soy beans which are soaked over night and then poured into this centrifugal "masher" which revolves at comparatively high speed. The white, …
Japanese American farmer (ddr-densho-37-378)
img Japanese American farmer (ddr-densho-37-378)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Project farmer with carrots.
Kindergarten class (ddr-densho-37-382)
img Kindergarten class (ddr-densho-37-382)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Segregation Center, Newell, California. A kindergarten class at the Tule Lake Center on the playground.
Japanese Americans voting (ddr-densho-37-169)
img Japanese Americans voting (ddr-densho-37-169)
Original WRA caption: Alice Fujinaga, formerly of Seattle, Washington, is here notarizing and getting absentee ballot.
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