Tule Lake

Concentration Camp

More information in the Densho Encyclopedia ...

Filters

Topics
Format
Genre
Usage

Use <Ctrl> or (⌘) keys to select multiple terms

2806 items
Hoshidan members unloading mattresses (ddr-densho-37-111)
img Hoshidan members unloading mattresses (ddr-densho-37-111)
Original WRA caption: "Recalcitrant" Hokoku unload mattresses to form beds outside building but within stockade enclosure when 300 are held at stockade over night for questioning.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-111/
Harvest Festival Parade (ddr-densho-37-71)
img Harvest Festival Parade (ddr-densho-37-71)
Original WRA caption: Farm workers who participated in the Harvest Festival Parade held at this relocation center. Their hats were fashioned from turnips.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-71/
Processing a segregant (ddr-densho-37-276)
img Processing a segregant (ddr-densho-37-276)
Original WRA caption: Individual segregee folders [being] made up.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-276/
Farmer loading potatoes (ddr-densho-37-84)
img Farmer loading potatoes (ddr-densho-37-84)
Original WRA caption: An evacuee farmer ready to put a sack of newly dug potatoes on the truck at the farm at this relocation center.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-84/
Japanese American farmers digging potatoes (ddr-densho-37-87)
img Japanese American farmers digging potatoes (ddr-densho-37-87)
Original WRA caption: Evacuee farmers at this relocation center filling sacks with newly dug potatoes.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-87/
Aerial view of Tule Lake concentration camp (ddr-densho-37-422)
img Aerial view of Tule Lake concentration camp (ddr-densho-37-422)
Original WRA caption: Tule Lake, California. A panoramic view showing site of Tule Lake War Relocation Authority Center.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-422/
Japanese Americans climbing Castle Rock (ddr-densho-37-177)
img Japanese Americans climbing Castle Rock (ddr-densho-37-177)
Original WRA caption: A pleasant Sunday afternoon's recreation is spent by evacuee winter sports enthusiasts, on the slopes of Castle Mountain. Home made sleds and various other home made pieces of equipment were used by these young people.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-177/
Furniture loaded for transport (ddr-densho-37-935)
img Furniture loaded for transport (ddr-densho-37-935)
Included annotation: O-3, Crafted furniture, Tale Lake bound.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-935/
Winter in camp (ddr-densho-37-351)
img Winter in camp (ddr-densho-37-351)
Original WRA caption: A winter time scene looking east down the main fire break.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-351/
Hoshidan members leaving Tule Lake (ddr-densho-37-187)
img Hoshidan members leaving Tule Lake (ddr-densho-37-187)
Original WRA caption: Size of well-wishers diminished as the number of pro-Japan sympathizers sent to internment grew. Although 400 when leaving June 24, 1945, when this picture was taken, the send-off crowd was not nearly up-to-par.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-187/
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.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-257/
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.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-98/
Camp funeral parlor (ddr-densho-37-205)
img Camp funeral parlor (ddr-densho-37-205)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-205/
Japanese Americans making tofu (ddr-densho-37-156)
img Japanese Americans making tofu (ddr-densho-37-156)
Original WRA caption: The cooked beans are poured into a fine-meshed sack and water is added. Squeezing the sack the fiberous substance is held back and the rest of the precipitate is squeezed into a barrel. Into this strained mash or curd, brine is added to cause it to precipitate. This factory is operated by the …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-156/
Japanese Americans relocating to a different camp (ddr-densho-37-291)
img Japanese Americans relocating to a different camp (ddr-densho-37-291)
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 …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-291/
Family departing from camp (ddr-densho-37-126)
img Family departing from camp (ddr-densho-37-126)
Original WRA caption: The three [members of the Ishikawa family] have just finished the last minutes packing and relaxing with happy smile[s] while their freight is being picked up.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-126/
Japanese American firemen playing cards (ddr-densho-37-179)
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.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-179/
Camp flower garden (ddr-densho-37-323)
img Camp flower garden (ddr-densho-37-323)
Original WRA caption: Evacuee flower garden.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-323/
Hokoku Seinen Dan leaving camp (ddr-densho-37-182)
img Hokoku Seinen Dan leaving camp (ddr-densho-37-182)
Original WRA caption: Hokoku and sympathizers gather at Gate 1 March 4, 1945 to witness departure of 125 Hokoku for Internment Camp at Santa Fe, N.M.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-182/
Bank and newsstand (ddr-densho-37-361)
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.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-361/
Japanese American and handmade cabinet (ddr-densho-37-357)
img Japanese American and handmade cabinet (ddr-densho-37-357)
Original caption: Shinkichi Kiyono, 56, evacuee from Longview, Washington, exhibits the cabinet which won him first prize (a carpenter's plane) in a furniture building contest. All pieces of furniture were made from scrap lumber.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-357/
Furniture to ship to Tule Lake (ddr-densho-37-932)
img Furniture to ship to Tule Lake (ddr-densho-37-932)
Included annotation: O-2, Semi-load Segregants' furnitures to ship to Tule Lake Center.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-932/
Japanese Americans making tofu (ddr-densho-37-154)
img Japanese Americans making tofu (ddr-densho-37-154)
Original WRA caption: The paste-like crushed bean mash is cooked thoroughly in the big vat shown in the picture and constantly stirred. This tofu (pronounced To-o-fu) factory is operated by the Tule Lake Co-op.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-154/
Harvest Festival Parade (ddr-densho-37-68)
img Harvest Festival Parade (ddr-densho-37-68)
Original WRA caption: Two of the participants of the Harvest Festival Parade, which was witnessed by a large crowd of the residents at this relocation center.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-68/
Japanese American making boxes (ddr-densho-37-274)
img Japanese American making boxes (ddr-densho-37-274)
Original WRA caption: Evacuee, with lumber furnished by WRA, makes boxes for shipment of personal effects.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-274/
API