Tule Lake

Concentration Camp

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doc Petition to American Civil Liberties Union regarding conditions at Tule Lake (ddr-densho-35-429)

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img Artifacts (ddr-densho-35-22)

The Tule Lake Museum is located on the local fairgrounds and contains a display of artifacts from the Tule Lake concentration camp. The large searchlight is from a camp guard tower. Coal-burning stoves such as this one, presumably from barracks apartment, were the main source of heat for the Japanese Americans. To the left of the …

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img Artifacts (ddr-densho-35-40)

The Tule Lake Museum, located on the local fairgrounds, houses a display of artifacts from the Tule Lake concentration camp. Shown here are a variety of tea and sake cups, a teapot, and a bunka (Japanese embroidery) picture. The photo below is a panoramic view of the camp.

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img Artifacts (ddr-densho-35-41)

The Tule Lake Museum, located on the local fairgrounds, houses a display of artifacts that belonged to Japanese Americans from the Tule Lake concentration camp.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-35-41/

img Barracks graffiti (ddr-densho-35-14)

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img Artifacts (ddr-densho-35-21)

The Tule Lake Museum is located on the Tule Lake Fairgrounds and houses a display of artifacts from the Tule Lake concentration camp. This is a view of the Tule Lake concentration camp exhibit. The cases primarily contain pottery and artwork that belonged to the camp inmates.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-35-21/

img Memorial plaque (ddr-densho-35-1)

This plaque is part of a monument erected in 1979 by the JACL and California State Department of Parks and Recreation to commemorate the Tule Lake concentration camp.

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img Barracks and Castle Rock (ddr-densho-35-44)

A rock formation that the camp inmates called "Castle Rock" can be seen in the background. After obtaining permission to go through the gates, Japanese Americans could climb to the top of the formation.

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img Artifacts, Tule Lake concentration camp (ddr-densho-35-39)

The Tule Lake Museum displays artifacts from the Tule Lake concentration camp. The teapot, tea cups, and sake cups belonged to the camp inmates.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-35-39/

img Guard tower searchlight (ddr-densho-35-26)

The Tule Lake Museum, located on the town's fairgrounds, displays artifacts from the Tule Lake concentration camp. Shown here is a searchlight from a guard tower.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-35-26/

img Barracks graffiti (ddr-densho-35-13)

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img Eiko in wedding dress with Ken (ddr-densho-349-32)

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img Nursery school child (ddr-densho-37-164)

Original WRA caption: Little nursery school girl singing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.

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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.

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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.

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img Japanese Americans making bread (ddr-densho-37-241)

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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, …

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img Japanese American farmer (ddr-densho-37-378)

Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Project farmer with carrots.

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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.

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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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img Camp construction (ddr-densho-37-248)

Original WRA caption: Construction begins on a War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry near Tule Lake in Modoc County, California, south of the Oregon border.

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