Tule Lake

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Muddy conditions (ddr-densho-37-349)
img Muddy conditions (ddr-densho-37-349)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Thaws turn the streets and firebreaks into seas of mud, and makes difficult motor transportation through the center.
Labor Day queen and her court (ddr-densho-37-322)
img Labor Day queen and her court (ddr-densho-37-322)
Original WRA caption: The labor day queen and her attendants are shown at the coronation ceremony which was a part of the celebration at this relocation center.
Sixth-grade students (ddr-densho-37-74)
img Sixth-grade students (ddr-densho-37-74)
Original WRA caption: Sixth grade pupils in the classroom. Miss Mae Hert is the teacher.
Japanese Americans making tofu (ddr-densho-37-155)
img Japanese Americans making tofu (ddr-densho-37-155)
Original WRA caption: The precipitate is put into forms and pressed. Later it is cut into smaller cakes and kept in water as shown. Tofu is a kind of "bean curd" considered essential to the Japanese diet. Other pictures in this group show the various processes in the manufacture of this product. To preserve it is …
Camp new arrivals (ddr-densho-37-300)
img Camp new arrivals (ddr-densho-37-300)
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 …
Letter to Yuri Domoto from Yoshito Shibata (ddr-densho-356-235)
doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Yoshito Shibata (ddr-densho-356-235)
Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Yoshito Shibata in which he comforts Yuri on her misbehaving typewriter by sharing a Reader's Digest story, and his own typewriter's faults. He continues by discussing Yuri's sister's (Wakako Domoto) relocation to Denver, his recent skiing trip, the rash of promotions at Camp Savage, a prank by the mailroom staff, …
Letter to Yuri Domoto from Margaret Saito (ddr-densho-356-340)
doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Margaret Saito (ddr-densho-356-340)
Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Margaret Saito in which Margaret details her time in Tule Lake, her reason for transferring to Topaz and her desire to relocate to Philadelphia. Margaret also provides details about several mutual friends and her family, and asks about Yuri's. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-321 and ddr-densho-356-413.
Welcome Tuleans poster (ddr-densho-356-858)
doc Welcome Tuleans poster (ddr-densho-356-858)
Poster welcoming transferred detainees from Tule Lake to Amache.
Letter to Yuri Domoto from Alma Folda (ddr-densho-356-348)
doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Alma Folda (ddr-densho-356-348)
Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Alma K. Folda thanking Yuri for her hospitality while Alma was visiting Amache, information about mutual contacts and asking to stay in touch. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-321 and ddr-densho-356-413.
Japanese Americans climbing Castle Rock (ddr-densho-37-178)
img Japanese Americans climbing Castle Rock (ddr-densho-37-178)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. A pleasant Sunday afternoon's recreation is spent by evacuee winter sports enthusiasts, on the slopes of Castle Mountain. Homemade sleds and various other homemade pieces of equipment were used by these young people.
Segregants preparing to leave camp (ddr-densho-37-185)
img Segregants preparing to leave camp (ddr-densho-37-185)
Original WRA caption: The "400" march in small groups from Gate 1 to the stockade for processing before entraining for Santa Fe Internment Camp.
Japanese American departure from camp (ddr-densho-37-124)
img Japanese American departure from camp (ddr-densho-37-124)
Original WRA caption: Bye bye Tule Lake! Be it vanished with all the horrible memories and be it forgotten as a dream of the short summer nite!
Grade school children (ddr-densho-37-377)
img Grade school children (ddr-densho-37-377)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Recess in grade school.
Japanese Americans harvesting potatoes (ddr-densho-37-88)
img Japanese Americans harvesting potatoes (ddr-densho-37-88)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Evacuee farmers at this relocation center filling sacks with newly dug potatoes.
Japanese Americans unloading coal (ddr-densho-37-348)
img Japanese Americans unloading coal (ddr-densho-37-348)
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 extreamely [sic] cold winters which northern California offers.
Camp new arrivals (ddr-densho-37-293)
img Camp new arrivals (ddr-densho-37-293)
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 …
Japanese Americans distributing scrap lumber (ddr-densho-37-360)
img Japanese Americans distributing scrap lumber (ddr-densho-37-360)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Evacuees distribute scrap lumber to each block. This scrap will be used by the residents to construct furniture for their apartments and also for firewood.
Barracks construction (ddr-densho-37-257)
img Barracks construction (ddr-densho-37-257)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Building first house at Tule Lake War Relocation Authority center.
Confiscated weapons (ddr-densho-37-98)
img Confiscated weapons (ddr-densho-37-98)
According to the WRA, the items shown were considered concealed weapons and were confiscated.
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