Tule Lake

img Dust (ddr-janm-15-13)

1 ink drawing on paper: Two women in the center foreground look towards the dust devil in the center of frame, the back of their skirts picked up by the wind. A man on a bike and a man on foot run opposite ways away from the dust devil while the dust storm rips sweeps through …

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img Offering Condolences (ddr-janm-15-3)

1 watercolor painting of three men and a woman offering condolences to a grieving man in front of a barrack. Dated 1945 and signed D.T.H on the bottom left corner.

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img Bonodori (ddr-janm-15-1)

1 watercolor painting of ten women dressed in kimono and geta, performing Japanese folk dance, bon odori, on the basketball court in Tule Lake. Signed in the BLC: D.T.H., 1945.

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img Kids Playing in Dirt in Irrigation Ditch (ddr-janm-15-5)

1 watercolor painting of four children playing in the dirt with pails in the foreground. A 4x4 post fence behind them with a young man riding a bicycle and two women walking in opposite directions on the street.\n\nOn lower left corner on painting is a signature, "D.T. Hamaoka / 1945." On matte reads, "Kids playing in …

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img C.A. Art School (ddr-janm-15-12)

1 ink drawing on paper: The drawing depicts an art studio. The walls, ceilings, and floor are drawn and shaded with various short straight lines. The man painting on an easel in foreground is painting the barracks and Castle Rock, Castle Rock can also be seen in the background through the window. In midground are painting …

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av Bitter Memories: Tule Lake (ddr-densho-1024-12)

Early film that provides an overview of the wartime forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans on the West Coast produced by the University of California, Berkeley in 1975. Bitter Memory tells the story through narration and interviews with former inmates accompanied by archival footage from Office of War Information/War Relocation Authority (WRA) films and WRA …

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av I Told You So (ddr-densho-1024-1)

Poet Lawson Inada shows how growing up in Fresno, California influenced his writing. He visits Tule Lake, the largest of the American concentration camps, where Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were American citizens, were imprisoned during World War II. See this item in the Densho Resource Guide at: I Told You So. See this item …

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av Memories of Tule Lake Internment Camp (ddr-densho-1024-85)

Mitsuko Nagell talks with Frank Iwasaki about his experiences during WWII at Tule Lake concentration camp. Digital Histories is a mechanism for AAPNHPI older adults to use their unique voices and perspectives in sharing stories with the generations to come. Since its creation in 2003, Digital Histories has provided a professional and artistic work environment for …

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av Yonsei Eyes (ddr-densho-1024-39)

Yonsei Eyes is the story of two fourth-generation Japanese Americans who embark on a pilgrimage to the place where their grandparents were once imprisoned during World War II. Their journey takes them to the desolate site of the Tule Lake Segregation Center where they begin to understand the profound hardships and indignities their grandfathers had to …

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av Yuki Shimoda: Asian American Actor (ddr-densho-1024-87)

The thirty-year acting career of the late Yuki Shimoda reflects the achievement and career disappointments that faced the minority actor. Only offered limited roles by the Hollywood establishment during certain points of his career, Shimoda persevered on for challenging dramatic roles, such as in the television movie, FAREWELL TO MANZANAR. Shimoda’s journey from Sacramento’s “J-Town,” to …

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av American Fish (ddr-densho-1024-55)

Short dramatic film about two Nisei women who run into each other at a grocery store and the dance that ensues when neither can remember who the other is. Humorous at first, the tone shifts when one asks about "camp" and other replies that she was in Tule Lake , invoking stereotypes of the camp and …

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doc Letter from Tadashi Ishida to Mr. & Mrs. Y Ishida (ddr-densho-535-103)

Check-in letter from Camp Blanding, the first written in six days. When Tad's company got back from bivouac (six days ago), they were told to be ready to leave camp at any moment and weren't allowed to make phone calls or write letters. About half Tad's company was shipped off a day later, but not him; …

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doc Tule Lake Directory and Camp News (ddr-densho-520-1)

A book complied by Harry Inukai and published in May 1988. It includes a directory of Tule Lake concentration camp between May 1942 through September 1943 including barrack addresses. The second half of the book includes camp news in the following categories: Shows and Entertainment, Social Highlights, Vital Statistics, Departures, Arrivals and Transfers, Service News, Farm …

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