Tule Lake

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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!
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.
Muddy conditions (ddr-densho-37-350)
img Muddy conditions (ddr-densho-37-350)
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.
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.
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.
Camp building fire (ddr-densho-37-352)
img Camp building fire (ddr-densho-37-352)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Quick work, by the evacuee Fire Department, kept the fire, which broke out in the office located at the old hog farm, from doing other than minor damage.
Entrainment of segregants (ddr-densho-37-268)
img Entrainment of segregants (ddr-densho-37-268)
Original WRA caption: Crowd watches entrainment of segregees.
Newsreel and newspaper cameramen in camp (ddr-densho-37-355)
img Newsreel and newspaper cameramen in camp (ddr-densho-37-355)
Original WRA caption: Newsreel cameramen and newspaper cameramen from the San Francisco newspapers photograph potatoe planting on the farm at the Tule Lake Relocation Center.
Japanese Americans relocating to a different camp (ddr-densho-37-290)
img Japanese Americans relocating to a different camp (ddr-densho-37-290)
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 …
Harvest Festival Parade (ddr-densho-37-73)
img Harvest Festival Parade (ddr-densho-37-73)
Original WRA caption: Three costumes that were worn in the Harvest Festival Parade held at this relocation center.
High school (ddr-densho-37-82)
img High school (ddr-densho-37-82)
Original WRA caption: One of the barracks at this center which is used for a high school. As yet the students haven't decided on a name for the school.
Japanese Americans voting (ddr-densho-37-168)
img Japanese Americans voting (ddr-densho-37-168)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Absentee voters of Japanese descent getting ballots and having them notarized.
Co-op canteen (ddr-densho-37-150)
img Co-op canteen (ddr-densho-37-150)
Original WRA caption: This is one of three Canteens under the Tule Lake Co-operatives, Inc., in which all kinds of merchandise is sold to residents of the center for their well-being. Not luxury items but articles of clothing, drugs, cosmetics, stationery, etc.
Hokoku Seinen Dan (ddr-densho-37-109)
img Hokoku Seinen Dan (ddr-densho-37-109)
Original WRA caption: Early morning drill of Hokoku Seinin Dan, Pro-Japan society. Note white head bands are part of "uniform."
Grammar school (ddr-densho-37-170)
img Grammar school (ddr-densho-37-170)
Original WRA caption: A view in grammer school at this relocation center.
Harvest Festival Parade (ddr-densho-37-72)
img Harvest Festival Parade (ddr-densho-37-72)
Original WRA caption: This float in the Harvest Festival consisted of garden produce from the farm at this relocation center.
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