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vh Jimi Yamaichi Interview II (ddr-densho-1000-312)

Nisei male born in October 27, 1922. Grew up in San Jose, California where his father had a farming operation. Incarcerated in Pomona Assembly Center, Heart Mountain concentration camp and Tule Lake Segregation Center. Worked on an engineering crew on the Shoshone Dam, and later was a carpentry foreman in Tule Lake. Was in Tule during …

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vh Minoru Kiyota Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1000-36-13)

Restoration of U.S. citizenship, a ten-year legal effort by Wayne Collins

This interview was conducted at the 1998 Tule Lake Pilgrimage held at Klamath Falls, Oregon and at the site of Tule Lake incarceration camp in California. Given the limited time available during this event, the length and breadth of this interview are shorter than other …

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vh Minoru Kiyota Segment 12 (ddr-densho-1000-36-12)

Receiving support from a pacifist Christian group in decision to renounce U.S. citizenship

This interview was conducted at the 1998 Tule Lake Pilgrimage held at Klamath Falls, Oregon and at the site of Tule Lake incarceration camp in California. Given the limited time available during this event, the length and breadth of this interview are shorter …

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vh Minoru Kiyota Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1000-36-14)

Discussion of book title, "Beyond Loyalty..." and why the Japanese version had a different title

This interview was conducted at the 1998 Tule Lake Pilgrimage held at Klamath Falls, Oregon and at the site of Tule Lake incarceration camp in California. Given the limited time available during this event, the length and breadth of this interview …

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doc Segregation of Persons of Japanese Ancestry in Tule Lake Relocation Center (ddr-densho-493-35)

16-page pamphlet authored by the War Relocation announcing the segregation of "disloyal" Japanese Americans at Tule Lake and the displacement of "loyal" Tule Lake residents to other camps, based on responses to Question 28 of the loyalty questionnaire. Pamphlet explains who will be segregated based on their answers; which people will receive a hearing prior to …

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img Recreation hall for civilian personnel (ddr-densho-345-130)

A series of photographs taken by Harry Gamble and his team at Manzanar and Tule Lake concentration camps as part of their research. This research was then used to lobby for Tule Lake and not Manzanar be the camp to be designated a National Historic Landmark. The recreation hall for civilian personnel at Tule Lake was …

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vh Charles Olds Interview Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-121-1)

Born and raised in Japan as the son of Christian missionaries

This interview took place at the 2000 Tule Lake Pilgrimage in Klamath Falls, Oregon.

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img Block 74 gang (ddr-densho-463-167)

Written beside photograph on scrapbook page: Block 74 Gang back... Tule Lake, Taken in Sept. 1943.

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doc Heart Mountain Sentinel Bulletin No. 358 (October 19, 1945) (ddr-densho-97-542)

Selected article titles: "Many Restrictions Lifted" (p. 1), "Tule Lake to Close February 1" (p. 1).

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img YWCA conference attendees (ddr-densho-111-11)

These young women were temporarily released from Tule Lake concentration camp to attend the YWCA conference.

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img Page of Hisa Nimura Horiuchi Scrapbook (ddr-densho-325-24)

A sketch and map showing how Castle Rock dominated the skyline of Tule Lake concentration camp.

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img Japanese American departure from camp (ddr-densho-37-123)

Original WRA caption: Going through the last fences and gate of the Tule Lake [internment camp].

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doc Welcome to Amache guide (ddr-densho-356-859)

Booklet made for Tule Lake transfers that provides information about Granada in both English and Japanese.

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img High School Library (ddr-janm-15-14)

1 ink drawing on paper: Eight (7) students in the library with three (3) of the students exiting through the door in background. Students seated at tables reading or writing, or at shelving looking at books. One (1) woman looks stands behind a curved desk, looking towards the students.\n\n" - D.T. Hamaoka - 1945" written in …

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img Canteen #1 (ddr-janm-15-9)

1 ink drawing on paper: Eleven (11) inmates shopping in the canteen with nine (9) sales clerks. Aisle in the middle for customers to look around, counters hold some goods and cash registers with most items being on the shelves behind the counters. Wooden signs hanging from ceilings read from left to right, "Grocery," illegible sign, …

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img Japanese Movie (ddr-janm-15-15)

1 ink drawing on paper: A line of people wait to enter a large building hosting a screening of a movie with a sign on front that is written in Japanese, an electricity pole in midground in front of the line In the foreground on right is a man in a suit and hat standing by …

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img Koi-Nobori (May) (ddr-janm-15-7)

1 ink drawing on paper: A celebration of Boys' day with carp fish banners on tall poles. The drawing also shows the mother holding a baby in the foreground while two young children look at the carp fish banners flying in the midground, rows of barracks in the background.

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img Untitled (ddr-janm-15-16)

1 ink drawing on paper: In the foreground on right, eight (8) men working on the roof of a barracks, installing tar paper, with a single sunflower and clothesline to the lower right of them. In foreground and midground are five (5) individuals, two (2) who are loading logs onto a truck. Two (2) birds fly …

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img Going to Shower on Geta (ddr-janm-15-17)

1 watercolor painting on paper: Hues of brown, grey, blue, yellow, pink, red. Women and young girls going to and leaving the women's community bathroom at Tule Lake. On the left is the entrance to the bathroom. Above the doorway is a sign that reads: Women. There is a woman and young girl in the doorway. …

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img Tulean Characters (ddr-janm-15-6)

1 watercolor painting of six figures: a Kibei boy with eye glasses and book in hand; a Nisei boy in a navy blue coat and red cap; Hoshidan kid in white shirt; Nisei in a dark blue zoot suit; Issei woman with knitting handbag; an Issei artist carrying his brushes in his left hand and canvas …

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img Untitled (ddr-janm-15-11)

1 ink drawing on paper: Mess hall scene showing various families at meal time with three children looking towards the viewer. The style of drawing is reminiscent of woodblock prints.

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img Boy's Festival in May (ddr-janm-15-2)

1 watercolor painting of the celebration of boy's day with boys in the streets and flying carp banners hanging from poles between barracks. Painting is unsigned.

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img Scene with Radishes Drying, Clothes Drying, Kids Playing Basket (ddr-janm-15-4)

1 watercolor painting, in foreground, radishes are drying with clothes drying behind it. There is also a pair of geta beneath the clothesline post while three boys play basket to the right.\n\nOn lower right corner on the painting is a signature, "Dick T. Hamaoka / 1945". On matte reads, "Scene with radishes drying, clothes drying, kids …

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img Untitled (ddr-janm-15-10)

1 graphite pencil drawing on paper: Construction of foot bridges across a canal; four (4) men in the ditch, six (6) men altogether on the sides of the ditches. Construction zone on bottom left corner, truck on top right corner, across the canal are three hills of dirt or other organic material on left; in background …

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img Showing Pass at Gate (ddr-janm-15-8)

1 watercolor painting on paper: Hues of green, purple, gray, pink, red, yellow, orange, blue and brown. There are 10 individuals in the painting, eight (8) men and three (3) women, with eight (8) individuals being Japanese Americans with passes in their hands. In the foreground is one young man walking towards the camp gate while …

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