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983 items
983 items

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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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Sketch of Tri-State High (ddr-csujad-55-118)
Illustration of Tri-State High School at Tule Lake incarceration camp. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0120

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Housing assignment (ddr-csujad-55-2381)
Housing assignment for the Nakamura family, probably at Tule Lake incarceration camp. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2487

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Reconstructed guard tower at Tule Lake (ddr-csujad-55-1594)
Color photograph depicting the reconstructed guard tower at Tule Lake incarceration camp. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1596

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Meal ticket for mess 720 (ddr-csujad-55-1898)
Meal ticket belonging to Osamu Oseto at Tule Lake incarceration camp. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1901

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Complaint, War Relocation Authority vs. Ray Ishibashi (ddr-csujad-55-248)
Complaint regarding Ray Ishibashi's refusal to register at Tule Lake incarceration camp. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0250

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Menu (ddr-csujad-55-1906)
Menu for breakfast, dinner, and supper at the Tule Lake incarceration camp. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1909

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Warrant, War Relocation Authority vs. Ray Ishibashi (ddr-csujad-55-247)
Warrant for the arrest of Ray Ishibashi at Tule Lake incarceration camp. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0249

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Menu (ddr-csujad-55-1904)
Menu for breakfast, dinner, and supper at the Tule Lake incarceration camp. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1907

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George Naohara (ddr-csujad-38-250)
A photograph of George Nobuo Naohara taken at the Tule Lake camp in California. It was given to Mitzi Masukawa Naohara incarcerated at the Poston camp in Arizona. The handwritten note on the back side reads: 1944. August 30th, Tule Lake Camp, 7116-a, George Naohara.; The photo was taken on August 30, 1944. From Nobuo to …

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Satsuki Ina Interview (ddr-densho-1000-474)
Sansei female. Born May 25, 1944, in the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Her parents, both Kibei, grew up in San Francisco, California. During World War II, they were incarcerated at the Topaz concentration camp, Utah. They signed "no-no" on the so-called "loyalty questionnaire," renounced their U.S. citizenship, and were transferred to Tule Lake when it …

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Klimek Collection (ddr-densho-11)
The Klimek collection, 1998, documents the pilgrimage to the site of the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Photographs depict participants viewing barracks, old foundations from the camp, and Castle Rock and attending a memorial service at Linkville cemetery in Klamath Falls, Oregon.

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Nakano Collection (ddr-densho-177)
The Nakano collection consists of several photographs belonging to Densho narrator James Nakano. Originally born in Hawaii, Mr. Nakano was removed to the mainland U.S. during World War II. The photographs in this collection were taken at the Tule Lake concentration camp, California.

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Jiro Sanada in the Tule Lake camp (ddr-csujad-38-105)
Photographed is Jiro Sanada incarcerated in the Tule Lake camp in California. A photo from "George Naohara photo album" (csudh_nao_0001), page 23. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nao_01_23_002

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Large crowd outside barracks at Tule Lake (ddr-csujad-44-56)
A photograph of a large crowd of men, women, and children incarcerated at Tule Lake, California. Barracks are in the background. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: csumb_ms15_0056

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Vicinity map, Tule Lake WRA Center (ddr-csujad-55-2473)
Map of the Modoc County, California area, indicating the site of Tule Lake incarceration camp. Includes topography, main roads, and national forests. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2579

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Tulelake reunion III 1988 memory booklet (ddr-csujad-55-2717)
Pamphlet of Tule Lake reunion III held at Red Lion Inn, Sacramento, California. Includes current photographs of people who attended the reunion. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2881

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Camp layout overlaid on aerial (ddr-csujad-55-2475)
Boundary of the Tule Lake incarceration camp overlaid on an aerial photograph of the camp and surrounding area in Modoc County, California. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2581

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Keith One Interview (ddr-chi-1-10)
Sansei male. Born 1953 in Chicago, Illinois. Parents' families lived in Sacramento, California, prior to World War II. During the war, they were sent to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California, and the Amache concentration camp, Colorado. Both parents resettled in Chicago after the war, where they met and Keith was born.

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Setsuko Abe Hirano (left) and cousin, Edith Abey (right) dancing Japanese buyo dance at Topaz (ddr-csujad-55-2201)
Setsuko was sent from San Leandro to the Tule Lake camp and later transferred to the Topaz camp. Doris Abey Hrubant aka Sahomi Tachibana, was their dance teacher at Tule Lake and Topaz (Edith's older sister). The Abe family decided to change the spelling to "Abey" so most Americans would pronounce it correctly. See this object …

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Frank Miyamoto Interview Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1002-1-7)
Research study's focus on protest within Tule Lake concentration camp, California
This interview was conducted by sisters Emiko and Chizuko Omori for their 1999 documentary, Rabbit in the Moon, about the Japanese American resisters of conscience in the World War II incarceration camps. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life …

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Harry Ueno Interview Segment 35 (ddr-densho-1002-7-35)
Thoughts on poor condition of Tule Lake concentration camp, California
This interview was conducted by sisters Emiko and Chizuko Omori for their 1999 documentary, Rabbit in the Moon, about the Japanese American resisters of conscience in the World War II incarceration camps. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, …

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Heart Mountain Sentinel Vol. II No. 47 (November 20, 1943) (ddr-densho-97-156)
Selected article titles: "Tule Relaxes as Probe Continues" (p. 1), "Coast Grangers Would Bar Nisei" (p. 1), "Nisei Proving Their Loyalty, Thomas Tells Group at Hostel" (p. 1), "Editorial: Transfer Tule Lake Center!" (p. 4), "Committee on Resettlement of Nisei Formed in Wisconsin" (p. 4), "A Sermon in California: Persecution of Nisei Hit by Minister" (p. …

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Frank Shinichiro Tanabe Interview (ddr-densho-1000-218)
Nisei male. Born on August 10, 1919, in Osaka, Japan. Attended college at the University of Washington before being removed to the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Established Tule Lake's newspaper, the Tulean Dispatch. Transferred to the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho, before resettling in Chicago. Drafted into the Military Intelligence …

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Testimony of Susumu Sato (ddr-densho-67-157)
Written testimony of Susumu Sato of Olympia, Washington. Incarcerated in 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 "Evacuation Impact and Redress." Personal information excised by Densho.