Tule Lake

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Report of the informal meeting of the stockade internees and the Co-ordinating Committee of the Tule Lake Center (ddr-csujad-2-102)
doc Report of the informal meeting of the stockade internees and the Co-ordinating Committee of the Tule Lake Center (ddr-csujad-2-102)
Provides minutes of meeting requested by stockade incarcerees, listing the incarcerees, Co-ordinating Committee members, and others in attendance and presenting paraphrased text, identifying speakers by name. Topics addressed include incarcerees' difficulties in talking honestly; their understanding of conditions in the camp outside of the stockade; the work of the Co-ordinating Committee and of the Negotiating Committee; …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-2-102/
Standard position description, internal security officer (ddr-csujad-2-75)
doc Standard position description, internal security officer (ddr-csujad-2-75)
Description for Internal Security Officer (Organization Title), CAF - 7, Assistant Internal Security Officer (Class Title); duties include training and supervising incarceree patrolmen "in all phases of a positive program" that includes protection of people and property, enforcement of laws, and traffic control, among other duties. The second page contains only an official stamp. See this …
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Memo from Harry L. Black, Assistant Project Director, to Willard E. Schmidt, Chief of Police, re: disorders in Block #54, June 2, 1944 (ddr-csujad-2-83)
doc Memo from Harry L. Black, Assistant Project Director, to Willard E. Schmidt, Chief of Police, re: disorders in Block #54, June 2, 1944 (ddr-csujad-2-83)
Discusses imprisonment in the stockade of 12 incarcerees and tension concerning the Japanese Language Schools and the schools in the camps, detailing what it terms "terrorist tactics" on the part of the Japanese Language School's proponents and concluding that the Project Director is justified in using the stockade for disciplinary purposes. The document also includes the …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-2-83/
Atsushi Art Ishida and George Naohara (ddr-csujad-38-256)
img Atsushi Art Ishida and George Naohara (ddr-csujad-38-256)
Photographed are a group of Nisei incarcerated in the Tule Lake camp in California, including George Nobuo Naohara and Atsushi Art Ishida. It is taken in front of their assigned barracks unit. A photo from: Mitzi Naohara photo album (csudh_nao_0200), page 14. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nao_02_14_001
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-38-256/
Termination notice, Form WRA-114, George Naohara (ddr-csujad-38-567)
doc Termination notice, Form WRA-114, George Naohara (ddr-csujad-38-567)
A notice of termination, Form WRA-114, issued by "Tule Lake Relocation Center," War Relocation Authority. It notifies George Nobuo Naohara of the termination date and reason from his farmer's position. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nao_05_13_020
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-38-567/
George Nobuo Naohara's handwritten note: postcard business at the Tule Lake camp (ddr-csujad-38-107)
img George Nobuo Naohara's handwritten note: postcard business at the Tule Lake camp (ddr-csujad-38-107)
George Nobuo Naohara's handwritten note describing his business at the Tule Lake camp in California. English translation: Geroge Naohara made postcards, adding his illustrations on blank cards, and sold them at the Post Exchange at the Tule Lake camp where his old friend worked. George's friend helped him to sell his postcards at the store. The …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-38-107/
Kibei's view of Life in relocation camps during World War II (ddr-csujad-38-582)
doc Kibei's view of Life in relocation camps during World War II (ddr-csujad-38-582)
A term paper prepared by Eileen Naohara Yoshimura, a daughter of George and Mitzi Naohara, for Professor Donald Teruo Hata's "Basic History 100" course at CSU Dominguez Hills Department of History. It focuses on the experiences of George Nobuo Naohara. She interviewed him about his time spent at the Tule Lake camp. See this object in …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-38-582/
Letter from Jennie G. Hermon, Clerk, Local Board No. 277, Selective Service System, to Nobuo Naohara, March 2, 1945 (ddr-csujad-38-573)
doc Letter from Jennie G. Hermon, Clerk, Local Board No. 277, Selective Service System, to Nobuo Naohara, March 2, 1945 (ddr-csujad-38-573)
A letter from Jennie G. Hermon, Local Board No. 277, Selective Service System, to George Nobuo Naohara incarcerated in the Tule Lake camp in California. It requires George to answer all the questions in DDS from 304A. It appears that George did not follow their instruction, crossing out his answers on the forms, and the office …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-38-573/
Letter from B.Y. Read, Colonel, AGD, Adjutant General, Office of the Commanding General, Headquarters Western Defense Command, to George Naohara, September 4, 1945 (ddr-csujad-38-568)
doc Letter from B.Y. Read, Colonel, AGD, Adjutant General, Office of the Commanding General, Headquarters Western Defense Command, to George Naohara, September 4, 1945 (ddr-csujad-38-568)
A letter from Office of the Commanding General, Headquarters Western Defense Command, to George Nobuo Naohara incarcerated at the Tule Lake camp, California. It notifies him of Public Proclamation no. 24 and the rescission of exclusion. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nao_05_13_021
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-38-568/
Atsushi Art Ishida and Hisako Yatabe leaving for the Tule Lake camp (ddr-csujad-38-109)
img Atsushi Art Ishida and Hisako Yatabe leaving for the Tule Lake camp (ddr-csujad-38-109)
Photographed is Atsushi Art Ishida, wearing leis posing with Hisako Yatabe. It is taken in the Jerome incarceration camp in Arkansas when he is leaving for the Tule Lake segregation camp. The attached note reads: Off to Tule Lake, Art Ishida friend. A photo from "George Naohara photo album" (csudh_nao_0001), page 25. See this object in …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-38-109/
Jiro Sanada in the Tule Lake camp (ddr-csujad-38-105)
img Jiro Sanada in the Tule Lake camp (ddr-csujad-38-105)
Photographed is Jiro Sanada incarcerated in the Tule Lake camp in California. A photo from "George Naohara photo album" (csudh_nao_0001), page 23. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nao_01_23_002
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-38-105/
George Naohara's handwritten note (ddr-csujad-38-160)
doc George Naohara's handwritten note (ddr-csujad-38-160)
Handwritten note from "George Naohara photo album" (csudh_nao_0001), page 15. George Nobuo Naohara details his experience after moving from Idaho to Utah. He was a farm labor for sugar beets farm at Norman Johnson in Utah but was working in a hotel as a dish washer during the winter. He and his friend, Tadashi Sakaida, visited …
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George Naohara (ddr-csujad-38-250)
img George Naohara (ddr-csujad-38-250)
A photograph of George Nobuo Naohara taken at the Tule Lake camp in California. It was given to Mitzi Masukawa Naohara incarcerated at the Poston camp in Arizona. The handwritten note on the back side reads: 1944. August 30th, Tule Lake Camp, 7116-a, George Naohara.; The photo was taken on August 30, 1944. From Nobuo to …
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Card from George Naohara to Mitzi Naohara, February 14, 1945 (ddr-csujad-38-416)
doc Card from George Naohara to Mitzi Naohara, February 14, 1945 (ddr-csujad-38-416)
A Valentine's Day card from George Nobuo Naohara to "Mitsuko" who is Mitzi Masukawa Naohara. He probably wrote from the Tule Lake camp in California where he was incarcerated to her while she was incarcerated at the Poston camp in Arizona. An item from: Mitzi Naohara scrapbook (csudh_nao_0400), page 37. See this object in the California …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-38-416/
Statement of United States citizen of Japanese ancestry, DSS form 304A, Nobuo Naohara (ddr-csujad-38-576)
doc Statement of United States citizen of Japanese ancestry, DSS form 304A, Nobuo Naohara (ddr-csujad-38-576)
Statement of United States citizen of Japanese ancestry, DSS form 304A, partially filled by Selective Service System for George Nobuo Naohara. The attached letter is found in item: csudh_nao_0552. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nao_05_15_005
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-38-576/
Letter from Jennie G. Hermon, Clerk, Local Board No. 277, Selective Service System, to Nobuo Naohara, June 13, 1945 (ddr-csujad-38-575)
doc Letter from Jennie G. Hermon, Clerk, Local Board No. 277, Selective Service System, to Nobuo Naohara, June 13, 1945 (ddr-csujad-38-575)
A letter from Jennie G. Hermon, Local Board No. 277, Selective Service System, to George Nobuo Naohara incarcerated in the Tule Lake camp in California. It is the second notice requiring George to complete DDS form 304A, following their instruction. It appears that George did not respond to their previous letter, which is found in item: …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-38-575/
George Nobuo Naohara's handwritten note: experiences during the war (ddr-csujad-38-95)
doc George Nobuo Naohara's handwritten note: experiences during the war (ddr-csujad-38-95)
A piece of handwritten note describing George Nobuo Naohara's experiences during the war. He went to Jerome in Arkansas, then Tule Lake in California, with his friend. An item from "George Naohara photo album" (csudh_nao_0001), page 21. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nao_01_21_010
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-38-95/
George Naohara (ddr-csujad-38-251)
img George Naohara (ddr-csujad-38-251)
Photographed is George Nobuo Naohara incarcerated in the Tule Lake camp in California. A photo from: Mitzi Naohara photo album (csudh_nao_0200), page 13. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nao_02_13_002
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-38-251/
Covered truck leaving Jerome camp for Tule Lake camp (ddr-csujad-38-86)
img Covered truck leaving Jerome camp for Tule Lake camp (ddr-csujad-38-86)
Photographed are a covered truck and incarcerees presumably in the Jerome incarceration camp in Arkansas. It was probably taken when the volunteers were leaving for the Tule Lake camp in California. A photo from "George Naohara photo album" (csudh_nao_0001), page 21. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nao_01_21_001
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Volunteers leaving from Jerome camp to Tule Lake camp (ddr-csujad-38-297)
img Volunteers leaving from Jerome camp to Tule Lake camp (ddr-csujad-38-297)
Photographed are incarcerees seeing off the volunteers moving from the Jerome camp in Arkansas, to the Tule Lake Segregation Center in California. The caption reads: From Jerome Relocation Camp, volunteers to Tule Lake were transported by truck and later by train. A photo from: Mitzi Naohara photo album (csudh_nao_0200), page 18. See this object in the …
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Volunteers leaving from Jerome camp to Tule Lake camp (ddr-csujad-38-298)
img Volunteers leaving from Jerome camp to Tule Lake camp (ddr-csujad-38-298)
Photographed are the volunteers on the train, moving from the Jerome camp in Arkansas to the Tule Lake camp in California, and incarcerees seeing off the volunteers. The caption reads: From Jerome Relocation Camp, volunteers to Tule Lake were transported by truck and later by train. A photo from: Mitzi Naohara photo album (csudh_nao_0200), page 18. …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-38-298/
Mr. Jiro Sanada, Tule Lake (ddr-csujad-38-104)
img Mr. Jiro Sanada, Tule Lake (ddr-csujad-38-104)
Photographed is Jiro Sanada incarcerated at the Tule Lake camp in California. The caption reads: Mr. Jiro Sanada, Tule Lake. [In Japanese]. Title from caption. A photo from "George Naohara photo album" (csudh_nao_0001), page 23. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nao_01_23_001
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-38-104/
Statement of United States citizen of Japanese ancestry, DSS form 304A, Nobuo Naohara (ddr-csujad-38-574)
doc Statement of United States citizen of Japanese ancestry, DSS form 304A, Nobuo Naohara (ddr-csujad-38-574)
Statement of United States citizen of Japanese ancestry, DSS form 304A, partially filled by Selective Service System for George Nobuo Naohara. The attached letter is found in item: csudh_nao_0550. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nao_05_15_003
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-38-574/
Part IV. Collective adjustments to the relocation center, chapter I: social structure of the community (ddr-csujad-26-5)
doc Part IV. Collective adjustments to the relocation center, chapter I: social structure of the community (ddr-csujad-26-5)
Description of camp social structures including "Caucasian-Japanese relations" highlighting tension and hostility by three groups that most directly involve Japanese Americans and the incarceration: The War Relocation Authority (WRA), the US Army and the American public. Using case - studies, the manuscript examines these relationships and discusses the circumstances of incarceration contributing to differences in social …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-26-5/
Billigmeier and others outdoors (ddr-csujad-26-89)
img Billigmeier and others outdoors (ddr-csujad-26-89)
Billigmeier, a Japanese American man, and two women in the process of posing outdoors. From photo album of Robert Billigmeier. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: mei_05_026
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-26-89/
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