Tule Lake

Concentration Camp

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img Japanese American firemen playing cards (ddr-densho-37-179)

Original WRA caption: The evacuee firemen spend their recreation moments, as do all firemen, by playing a good old American game of cards.

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img Harvest Festival Parade (ddr-densho-37-67)

Original WRA caption: Some of the evacuees who participated in the Harvest Festival Parade held at this relocation center.

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img Bank and newsstand (ddr-densho-37-361)

Original WRA caption: A view of the bank and newsstand at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. The bank is open on Tuesdays and Fridays only.

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img Shoe repair shop (ddr-densho-37-148)

Original WRA caption: All shoe repair work for the entire colony is done in this shop which is under the Tule Lake Co-operative Enterprise, Inc.

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img Camp classroom (ddr-densho-37-173)

Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. World History and English, a two hour class taught by Mrs. Hanny Billigmeier.

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img Exterior, stockade (ddr-densho-37-207)

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img Arrival of segregants (ddr-densho-37-259)

Original WRA caption: Segregee's household effects arrive at apartment.

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img Incarceree suicide (ddr-densho-37-101)

Tsuruzo Harada was seventy-seven when he committed suicide. He had no relatives in the United States or abroad.

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img Construction of barracks (ddr-densho-37-254)

Original WRA caption: Work commences on the construction of barrack homes for evacuees of Japanese ancestry on the site selected for this War Relocation Authority center.

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img Tule Lake symphony (ddr-densho-37-133)

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img Hoshidan members leaving Tule Lake (ddr-densho-37-196)

Original WRA caption: The 25 lay-down strikers leave the stockade gate, under heavy guard, to march the approximate mile to the special Department of Justice train, 6-24-45. (Besides losing their clothes, they also "lost face" with possible sympathizers remaining in the colony, and caused the Hokoku and Hoshi Dan to become laughing stock of the colony.)

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img Japanese Americans relocating to a different camp (ddr-densho-37-295)

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 …

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img Talent show skit (ddr-densho-37-380)

Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Segregation Center, Newell, California. Skit by boys in talent show sponsored by Tri-State High School student body June 9 at Tule Lake Center to help finance the annual.

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img Japanese Americans picking peas (ddr-densho-37-141)

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img New Year's dance (ddr-densho-37-128)

This New Year's dance was held at the camp's hospital.

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img Sake confiscated during a raid (ddr-densho-37-97)

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img Farmers loading truck (ddr-densho-37-83)

Original WRA caption: Evacuee farmers loading a truck with recently dug potatoes at the farm at this relocation center.

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img Japanese Americans harvesting spinach (ddr-densho-37-316)

Original WRA caption: Trucking crated spinach from the fields to the packing shed. All vegetables which are not needed here are washed, iced and crated and sent to other relocation centers.

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img Lettuce farm (ddr-densho-37-136)

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img View of barracks (ddr-densho-37-171)

Original WRA caption: View of barracks looking east down the main fire break.

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img Site, stockade (ddr-densho-37-211)

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img Reclamation project superintendent showing camp site (ddr-densho-37-252)

Original WRA caption: Beauford Hayden, Superintendent of Reclamation Project, displaying chart showing the location of the site selected for a War Relocation Authority center for the housing of evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

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