Tule Lake

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Nursery school art class (ddr-densho-37-314)
img Nursery school art class (ddr-densho-37-314)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Art time in the nursery school at this relocation center.
Camp construction (ddr-densho-37-249)
img Camp construction (ddr-densho-37-249)
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.
Japanese Americans unloading coal (ddr-densho-37-385)
img Japanese Americans unloading coal (ddr-densho-37-385)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Evacuee workers unload coal at Staley Junction, which is the rail head for this center. This coal is used by the residents during the extremely cold winters which northern California offers.
Camp store (ddr-densho-37-359)
img Camp store (ddr-densho-37-359)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. A view showing the recently completed Store Number 2 at this War Relocation Authority center.
Nursery school students (ddr-densho-37-165)
img Nursery school students (ddr-densho-37-165)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Nursery school children singing "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star."
Construction of barracks (ddr-densho-37-255)
img Construction of barracks (ddr-densho-37-255)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Construction of barrack apartments has begun at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.
Members of the Hoshidan distributing mattresses (ddr-densho-37-112)
img Members of the Hoshidan distributing mattresses (ddr-densho-37-112)
Mattresses were doled out to 300 members of the Hoshidan, a pro-Japan organization, who were being kept overnight for questioning.
Japanese Americans relocating to a different camp (ddr-densho-37-55)
img Japanese Americans relocating to a different camp (ddr-densho-37-55)
Original WRA caption: Recreation Hall in which moveable screens were set up to provide bedrooms for Tule Lake transferees due to a temporary shortage of regular barrack space.
Camp fashion show (ddr-densho-37-320)
img Camp fashion show (ddr-densho-37-320)
Original WRA caption: A fashion show was one of the many exhibits held at this relocation center on Labor Day. Great skill was shown in dressmaking and tailoring, and was thoroughly appreciated by the large audience which witnessed this display.
Administration office workers (ddr-densho-37-172)
img Administration office workers (ddr-densho-37-172)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Evacuee stenographers and clerks at work in Administrative Office.
Japanese Americans relocating to a different camp (ddr-densho-37-292)
img Japanese Americans relocating to a different camp (ddr-densho-37-292)
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 …
Segregees arrive at Tule Lake (ddr-densho-37-261)
img Segregees arrive at Tule Lake (ddr-densho-37-261)
Original WRA caption: Trucks loaded with segregees arrive at processing center.
Nursery school (ddr-densho-37-167)
img Nursery school (ddr-densho-37-167)
Original WRA caption: Home made toilets for nursery school children.
Japanese Americans relocating to a different camp (ddr-densho-37-270)
img Japanese Americans relocating to a different camp (ddr-densho-37-270)
Original WRA caption: Train arrives from Gila. Luggage is first passed out through the windows.
Hokoku Seinen Dan bugle corps (ddr-densho-37-183)
img Hokoku Seinen Dan bugle corps (ddr-densho-37-183)
Original WRA caption: Bugle Corps of Hokoku Seinen Dan gather at Gate 1 to give proper send off to 125 of their number being sent to Santa Fe Internment Camp March 4, 1945.
Japanese Americans loading a train (ddr-densho-37-262)
img Japanese Americans loading a train (ddr-densho-37-262)
Original WRA caption: Caucasian supervisor on train loading detail.
Concentration camp site (ddr-densho-37-251)
img Concentration camp site (ddr-densho-37-251)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Site on which a War Relocation Authority center is to be constructed for the housing of 10,000 evacuees of Japanese ancestry for the duration.
Hog farm (ddr-densho-37-80)
img Hog farm (ddr-densho-37-80)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. A view of hogs at the temporary hog farm at this relocation center.
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