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img Board with apartment number (?) (ddr-densho-35-23)

The Tule Lake Museum, located on the town's fairgrounds, contains a display of artifacts from the Tule Lake concentration camp. This wooden marker is from a barracks apartment.

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img Artifacts (ddr-densho-35-24)

The Tule Lake Museum, located on the local fairgrounds, houses a display of artifacts from the Tule Lake concentration camp. The chair was probably handcrafted by a camp inmate.

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img Exterior of barracks (ddr-densho-35-43)

Local farmers currently own several barracks from the Tule Lake concentration camp. Some barracks have been made into homes, while others, like the one shown here, have been converted into storage areas.

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img Artifacts (ddr-densho-35-22)

The Tule Lake Museum is located on the local fairgrounds and contains a display of artifacts from the Tule Lake concentration camp. The large searchlight is from a camp guard tower. Coal-burning stoves such as this one, presumably from barracks apartment, were the main source of heat for the Japanese Americans. To the left of the …

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img Artifacts (ddr-densho-35-40)

The Tule Lake Museum, located on the local fairgrounds, houses a display of artifacts from the Tule Lake concentration camp. Shown here are a variety of tea and sake cups, a teapot, and a bunka (Japanese embroidery) picture. The photo below is a panoramic view of the camp.

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img Artifacts (ddr-densho-35-41)

The Tule Lake Museum, located on the local fairgrounds, houses a display of artifacts that belonged to Japanese Americans from the Tule Lake concentration camp.

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img Artifacts (ddr-densho-35-21)

The Tule Lake Museum is located on the Tule Lake Fairgrounds and houses a display of artifacts from the Tule Lake concentration camp. This is a view of the Tule Lake concentration camp exhibit. The cases primarily contain pottery and artwork that belonged to the camp inmates.

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img Barracks and Castle Rock (ddr-densho-35-44)

A rock formation that the camp inmates called "Castle Rock" can be seen in the background. After obtaining permission to go through the gates, Japanese Americans could climb to the top of the formation.

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img Artifacts, Tule Lake concentration camp (ddr-densho-35-39)

The Tule Lake Museum displays artifacts from the Tule Lake concentration camp. The teapot, tea cups, and sake cups belonged to the camp inmates.

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img Guard tower searchlight (ddr-densho-35-26)

The Tule Lake Museum, located on the town's fairgrounds, displays artifacts from the Tule Lake concentration camp. Shown here is a searchlight from a guard tower.

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doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Nao Hoshino (ddr-densho-356-324)

Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Naoko Hoshino detailing the work environment of the social welfare office at Tule Lake and asking advice from Yuriko. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-321 and ddr-densho-356-413.

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doc Letter to Richard and Yuri Tsukada from Mr. & Mrs. W. Senda (ddr-densho-356-395)

Letter to Richard Tsukada and Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Wataro Senda and Seki Senda in which they thank the Tsukadas for a copy of their wedding portrait and inquire about if they plan to return to the West Coast. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-321 and ddr-densho-356-413.

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doc Christmas Card to Yuri Domoto from Alma Folda (ddr-densho-356-366)

Christmas card with handwritten note to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Alma Folda in which Alma provides condolences for the death of Kanetaro Domoto (Yuriko's father), and inquires about Yuri's plans to leave camp. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-321 and ddr-densho-356-413.

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doc Takeharu Inouye Diary (ddr-densho-365-2)

In the second diary he kept in the camp at Tule Lake, Takeharu Inouye recounts his struggles with education and the boredom resulting from few recreational opportunities. Though he participated in several baseball games with his classmates, Takeharu spent the majority of his free time attending the movie showings that occurred daily or weekly throughout the …

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doc W.R.A. Tule Lake Project nametag (ddr-densho-365-18)

Takeharu Inouye's nametag and number badge for work as a farm laborer at the Tule Lake concentration camp. Inouye worked in farm operations, primarily on a mechanical harvester, until the injuries and deaths of several laborers led to the strikes at Tule Lake, and the termination of their employment.

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doc Through the Windows at Tule Lake (ddr-densho-365-7)

Through the Windows at Tule Lake was an event consisting of performances and readings during the 1994 Tule Lake Pilgrimage. Performers included Barbara Muramoto, the Shizen Youth Dance Theatre, Bill Marutani, Aya Ogawa, and David Hirota. The event focused on experiences at Tule Lake across generations, including for young people interned in the camp. The program …

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doc Takeharu Inouye Diary (ddr-densho-365-1)

Takeharu Inouye's first diary documents his family's forced move to the Sacramento Assembly Center, followed by their move to the Tule Lake concentration camp. Since his mother, Miyoe Inouye, was a teacher, thirteen-year-old Takeharu's diary focuses on his classes in the Japanese and American schools at Tule Lake. His struggles with his schoolwork, as well as …

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doc Takeharu Inouye Diary (ddr-densho-365-3)

In the final diary that Takeharu Inouye kept during his internment at Tule Lake, he includes descriptions of the movies he went to see daily, which served as his primary form of recreation. Takeharu also describes his feelings over succeeding and failing in his high school classes, since his friends would cheat off of his work, …

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doc Letter to T. Takeda (ddr-densho-501-281)

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doc Telegram from J.B. Peckham to Chizu Takeda (ddr-densho-501-271)

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doc Testimony of Elaine Ishikawa Hayes (ddr-densho-67-161)

Written testimony of Elaine Ishikawa Hayes. Incarcerated at the Sacramento Assembly Center and the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. This testimony was presented at the CWRIC hearing in Seattle, Washington, on Wednesday, September 9, 1981, in the section titled "Discrimination and Psychological Impact."

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doc Weekly Press Review, no. 43, November 17, 1943 (ddr-csujad-19-59)

This is the weekly press review which talks about the disturbances and significant incidents in the Tule Lake segregation center. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: WRA_02-13_02

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doc Letter from Harry Gamble to Edwin C. Bearss (ddr-densho-345-75)

Harry Gamble writes to Edwin Bearss, Chief Historian of the National Park Service, concerning the choice of internment camp to be designated a National Historic Landmark. Gamble believes that Tule Lake concentration camp at Newell, California is the better choice over Manzanar.

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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.

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doc Instructions to evacuees who are leaving the center (ddr-csujad-55-216)

Instructions provided to Tsukane Yokota regarding departure from Tule Lake incarceration camp. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0218

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