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doc Christian church in Tule Lake (ddr-csujad-26-7)

Report on the majority Protestant Christian church at Tule Lake and the development of a community church which became known as "Tule Lake Union Church." The report describes church organization, leadership issues and changes, schedules, facilities, church-centered groups and activities, finances, languages and membership. Report compiled as a portion of the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement …

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img Tule Lake scrapbook Christmas card illustrations (ddr-csujad-26-61)

Scrapbook page featuring Tule Lake setting block prints of four holiday greeting cards. Each card depicts the barracks within a variation of the camp setting and variations of landscape. The page features two illustrations of barracks with one drawing specifically depicting the barracks behind barbed wire fencing and is signed by "Cleone Norman." Tule Lake scrapbook …

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img Tule Lake scrapbook "Christmas cards" (ddr-csujad-26-58)

Scrapbook page features a black and red holiday card block print depicting camp barracks and a star behind a cattail plant reading "Tule Lake greetings" designed and cut by craft class students and includes name of "Cleone Norman" in lower right corner. The print is noted as being the most popular. Tule Lake scrapbook (ucsb_mei_0053), page …

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img Tule Lake scrapbook Christmas card illustrations (ddr-csujad-26-62)

Scrapbook page featuring block prints of two holiday greeting cards: one featuring birds flying over cattail plants and water with "Tule Lake greetings" lettered on; the second depicts a woman and a window featuring what appears to be stars and birds flying with lettering "Happy Xmas." The page also features an illustration of a chimney pipe. …

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vh Charles Olds Interview (ddr-densho-1000-121)

White male. Born 1913 in Karuizawa, Japan, to missionary parents. Attended Canadian school in Kobe, Japan, before coming to the United States with his older brother. He attended the University of Chicago School of Social Work, then volunteered to work for the War Relocation Authority (WRA). He later worked as a relocation officer in the concentration …

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Collection CSU Dominguez Hills Hiroshi Fukuwa Manzanar Diary (ddr-csujad-34)

The Hiroshi Fukuwa Manzanar Diary consists of a diary written by Hiroshi Fukuwa, Kibei Nisei of Los Angeles, California, along with newsletters, clippings, and handwritten notes created/collected in the incarceration camps during World War II. The diary details his incarceration experiences in the Manzanar camp in California, the Gila River camp in Arizona, and the Tule …

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol 68, No. 6 (February 7, 1969) (ddr-pc-41-6)

Select article titles: "JACL public relation aims updated" (p. 1); "Orange County bans Hershy's 'Hiroshima'" (p. 1); "Canadian Nisei judge unbenched" (p. 3); "History of racism on California topic of Kitano speech to Contra Costa 'Clers" (p. 4); "Grim Tule Lake WRA riot recalled" (p. 6).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-41-6/

img Snowy hillside (ddr-csujad-26-108)

Snowy hillside scenery. Possibly taken near Tule Lake incarceration camp. From photo album of Robert Billigmeier. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: mei_05_063

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doc Reports on Tule Lake transfers (ddr-csujad-2-48)

Information about 14 different incarceree transfers to Tule Lake Incarceration Camp. Reasons for transfer primarily due to loyalty questionnaire. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sjs_sch_0048

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img Japanese American carpenter building furniture (ddr-densho-37-358)

Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Shinkichi Kiyono, 56, carpenter-evacuee from Longview, Washington, is shown using a carpenter's plane which he won as first prize in a furniture contest conducted among the evacuees of Japanese descent at this War Relocation Authority center.

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img Castle rock and hospital area taken from roof of high school in Tule Lake (ddr-csujad-55-2209)

Black and white photograph of Castle Rock and the hospital buildings at Tule Lake incarceration camp. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2312

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img Mountain south of Tule Lake (ddr-csujad-55-1595)

Color photograph depicting the mountains (most likely Castle Rock) south of Tule Lake incarceration camp. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1597

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doc Notice of assignment, WRA-21, George Hideo Nakamura (ddr-csujad-55-2173)

Notice of assignment for George Hideo Nakamura as a butcher at Tule Lake incarceration camp. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2275

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img Viking (ddr-csujad-55-2531)

Illustration of a viking for World History class at an incarceration camp, probably Tule Lake camp. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2638

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img Buildings behind barbed wire in Tule Lake (ddr-csujad-55-2231)

Black and white landscape photograph depicting buildings behind barbed wire at Tule Lake incarceration camp. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2334

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doc Letter from Ivan Williams, Officer in Charge, United States Department of Justice to Sadae Hirota, March 1, 1946 (ddr-csujad-55-1899)

Correspondence from Ivan Williams to Sadaye [Sadae] Hirota regarding her release from Tule Lake Segregation Center. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1902

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img Fire at high school gym in Tule Lake (ddr-csujad-55-2208)

Black and white photograph of the high school gym on fire at Tule Lake incarceration camp. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2311

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doc I love you (ddr-csujad-55-1907)

Handwritten poem about spring and love, most likely by an incarceree at Tule Lake incarceration camp. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1910

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img Buildings in Tule Lake (ddr-csujad-55-2230)

Black and white landscape photograph depicting buildings with a smokestack at Tule Lake incarceration camp. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2333

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vh Peggy Tanemura Interview (ddr-densho-1000-85)

Ni-ten-gosei (half Nisei, half Sansei) female. Born June 3, 1932, in Seattle, Washington. Incarcerated at the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington; Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho; and Tule Lake segregation center, California. Returned to Seattle after the war and stayed temporarily at the Seattle Japanese Language School.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-85/

Collection Takeo Tsuji Family Collection (ddr-densho-181)

This collection is comprised of documents from the personal collection of Takeo Tsuji, who was held in the Tule Lake concentration camp, California, during World War II. Many of the documents are related to Mr. Tsuji's efforts to have his belongings restored to him after the war.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-181/

Collection Clarice Osterud Hargiss Collection (ddr-densho-186)

This collection consists of letters written to Clarice Osterud Hargiss, a student at the University of Washington during World War II. The letters were written by two Nisei friends, one in the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho, and the other at the Tule Lake concentration camp, California.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-186/

Collection CSU Dominguez Hills Owen Sylvester Tule Lake Photo Collection (ddr-csujad-13)

The Owen M. Sylvester Photograph Collection (1942-1943, undated) contains 32 black-and-white photographs taken by Sylvester at Tule Lake. The majority of the photographs were taken inside the Tule Lake Incarceration Camp in Newell, California in November 1943 and feature scenes containing housing quarters, the stockade area, imprisoned Japanese Americans, and members of the 772nd Military Police …

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Narrator Fred Tadashi Shingu

Nisei male. Born April 14, 1923, in Yuba City, California. Grew up in Elk Grove, California. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, moved with family to Florin, California, and was removed to the Marysville Assembly Center, California, and the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. While in Tule Lake, refused to sign the so-called "loyalty questionnaire," and …

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img Young Nisei women standing outside barrack (ddr-csujad-44-42)

A photograph of five young Nisei women incarcerated at Tule Lake, California. They are standing outside posing together for the camera. Barracks are visible behind them. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: csumb_ms15_0042

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Narrator Fred Tadashi Shingu