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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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img Dust (ddr-janm-15-13)

1 ink drawing on paper: Two women in the center foreground look towards the dust devil in the center of frame, the back of their skirts picked up by the wind. A man on a bike and a man on foot run opposite ways away from the dust devil while the dust storm rips sweeps through …

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img Offering Condolences (ddr-janm-15-3)

1 watercolor painting of three men and a woman offering condolences to a grieving man in front of a barrack. Dated 1945 and signed D.T.H on the bottom left corner.

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img Bonodori (ddr-janm-15-1)

1 watercolor painting of ten women dressed in kimono and geta, performing Japanese folk dance, bon odori, on the basketball court in Tule Lake. Signed in the BLC: D.T.H., 1945.

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img Kids Playing in Dirt in Irrigation Ditch (ddr-janm-15-5)

1 watercolor painting of four children playing in the dirt with pails in the foreground. A 4x4 post fence behind them with a young man riding a bicycle and two women walking in opposite directions on the street.\n\nOn lower left corner on painting is a signature, "D.T. Hamaoka / 1945." On matte reads, "Kids playing in …

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img C.A. Art School (ddr-janm-15-12)

1 ink drawing on paper: The drawing depicts an art studio. The walls, ceilings, and floor are drawn and shaded with various short straight lines. The man painting on an easel in foreground is painting the barracks and Castle Rock, Castle Rock can also be seen in the background through the window. In midground are painting …

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doc Testimony of Frank Niwa (ddr-densho-67-184)

Written testimony of Frank Niwa of Tacoma, Washington. Incarcerated in the Pinedale 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 "Tule Lake Center."

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doc Heart Mountain Sentinel Supplement Series 165 (January 25, 1944) (ddr-densho-97-386)

Selected article titles: "Tule Lake Enterprises to Make Refunds" (p. 1), "Enterprises Refund Payments Continue" (p. 1).

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doc Topaz Times Vol. VIII No. 11 (August 9, 1944) (ddr-densho-142-331)

Selected article titles: "Myer Discusses Tule Lake Draft Dismissal Case" (p. 1), "Editorial: Family Relocation" (p. 2).

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img Nisei soldier (ddr-densho-325-123)

Sumito Horiuchi at the top of Castle Rock just outside of Tule Lake concentration camp in 1943.

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img Japanese Americans working on camp newspaper (ddr-densho-37-465)

Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Evacuee artists who work on the Tulean Dispatch.

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img Nursery school students (ddr-densho-37-165)

Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. Nursery school children singing "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star."

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img Incarceree performing in camp parade (ddr-densho-2-23)

Patsy Yorita performing a flag salute at the Tule Lake concentration camp at the Independence Day parade.

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doc Seattle Chapter, JACL Reporter, Vol. 32, No. 1, January 1995 (ddr-sjacl-1-546)

Selected article titles: "Tule Lake Reunion Committee Seeks Registrants" (p. 1), "JAYS Schedule Homophobia Panel" (p. 2).

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doc Copy of letter to James Omura from Kiyoshi Okamoto (ddr-densho-122-829)

Describing Okamoto and Sam Horino's relocation to Tule Lake from Heart Mountain on the grounds of disloyalty

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doc 400 Japs go to Tule Lake: volunteers en route to harvest crops (ddr-csujad-34-8)

A newspaper clipping. It reports that 400 Japanese American incarcerees were hired from other camps to harvest crops in the Tule Lake camp while the incarcerees in the Tule Lake went on strike. It portraits the Tule Lake incarcerees as "disloyal Japs." See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: hrs_06_001

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vh Marianne West Interview Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-120-7)

Leaving camp early to find a house for family in Spokane, Washington

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

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