Tule Lake

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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.
Japanese Americans relocating to a different camp (ddr-densho-37-290)
img Japanese Americans relocating to a different camp (ddr-densho-37-290)
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 …
Harvest Festival Parade (ddr-densho-37-73)
img Harvest Festival Parade (ddr-densho-37-73)
Original WRA caption: Three costumes that were worn in the Harvest Festival Parade held at this relocation center.
Farmer loading potatoes (ddr-densho-37-84)
img Farmer loading potatoes (ddr-densho-37-84)
Original WRA caption: An evacuee farmer ready to put a sack of newly dug potatoes on the truck at the farm at this relocation center.
Japanese American farmers digging potatoes (ddr-densho-37-87)
img Japanese American farmers digging potatoes (ddr-densho-37-87)
Original WRA caption: Evacuee farmers at this relocation center filling sacks with newly dug potatoes.
High school (ddr-densho-37-82)
img High school (ddr-densho-37-82)
Original WRA caption: One of the barracks at this center which is used for a high school. As yet the students haven't decided on a name for the school.
Aerial view of Tule Lake concentration camp (ddr-densho-37-422)
img Aerial view of Tule Lake concentration camp (ddr-densho-37-422)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake, California. A panoramic view showing site of Tule Lake War Relocation Authority Center.
Grammar school (ddr-densho-37-170)
img Grammar school (ddr-densho-37-170)
Original WRA caption: A view in grammer school at this relocation center.
Harvest Festival Parade (ddr-densho-37-72)
img Harvest Festival Parade (ddr-densho-37-72)
Original WRA caption: This float in the Harvest Festival consisted of garden produce from the farm at this relocation center.
Hoshidan members unloading mattresses (ddr-densho-37-111)
img Hoshidan members unloading mattresses (ddr-densho-37-111)
Original WRA caption: "Recalcitrant" Hokoku unload mattresses to form beds outside building but within stockade enclosure when 300 are held at stockade over night for questioning.
Harvest Festival Parade (ddr-densho-37-71)
img Harvest Festival Parade (ddr-densho-37-71)
Original WRA caption: Farm workers who participated in the Harvest Festival Parade held at this relocation center. Their hats were fashioned from turnips.
Processing a segregant (ddr-densho-37-276)
img Processing a segregant (ddr-densho-37-276)
Original WRA caption: Individual segregee folders [being] made up.
Japanese Americans climbing Castle Rock (ddr-densho-37-177)
img Japanese Americans climbing Castle Rock (ddr-densho-37-177)
Original WRA caption: A pleasant Sunday afternoon's recreation is spent by evacuee winter sports enthusiasts, on the slopes of Castle Mountain. Home made sleds and various other home made pieces of equipment were used by these young people.
Winter in camp (ddr-densho-37-351)
img Winter in camp (ddr-densho-37-351)
Original WRA caption: A winter time scene looking east down the main fire break.
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