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img Concentration camp site (ddr-densho-37-253)

Original WRA caption: This site near Tule Lake in Modoc County, just south of the Oregon border, has been selected for the construction of a War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

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doc Granada Pioneer Vol. I No. 90 (August 11, 1943) (ddr-densho-147-91)

Selected article titles: "Movement to Tule Lake Set for September 15" (p. 1), "Pamphlets Issued on Segregation" (p. 1), "'Time' Quotes Hosokawa" (p. 3), "Ball of Fire Witnessed by Block 6F Resident" (p. 3).

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img Wartime home (ddr-densho-359-1673)

The caption written next to the photograph in the album "Our home in Caldwell 1943-1945". Eddie and Jeanette Otsuka were released from Tule Lake in 1943 to do farm work in Caldwell, Idasho.

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doc The Newell Star, Vol. I, No. 13 (May 25, 1944) (ddr-densho-284-20)

Selected article titles: "WRA in Complete Charge of Stockade Administration" (pp. 1-2), "Tule Lake Chronology: First Evacuees Open Center Two Years Ago" (p. 2), and "Elderly Man Hangs Self at Hospital" (p. 2).

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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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Collection Gerald Kajitani Collection (ddr-densho-294)

The Gerald Kajitani Collection consists of 73 Kodachrome slides taken by Gerald Kajitani at the 1974 Tule Lake pilgrimage.

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doc Heart Mountain Sentinel Vol. III No. 30 (July 22, 1944) (ddr-densho-97-191)

Selected article titles: "American Men of Japanese Ancestry..." (p. 1), "26 Tule Aliens Interned for November Riot" (p. 1), "Editorial: 'It's Always Forward'" (p. 4), "Evacuees Needed on Outside, Issei Writes to Project Chief" (p. 4), "Tule Lake Police Stage Walkout" (p. 8), "Law Does Not Compel Citizen to Renounce" (p. 8), "FBI Arrests FPC Leaders" …

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doc Memorandum of agreement (ddr-csujad-2-82)

Draft of agreement, to be signed by the Project Director of the Tule Lake Segregation Center and the District Attorney of Modoc County, regarding their respective financial and legal responsibilities in investigating and prosecuting criminal violations of State law at the Tule Lake camp. The unsigned draft has handwritten editing, including strikeouts. See this object in …

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doc Buddhist church preliminary report (ddr-csujad-26-8)

Description of the development and practices of the Buddhist Church at Tule Lake including Sunday school, adult services and the Young Buddhist Association (YBA). Includes several comparisons to the Christian Church and Christians at Tule Lake. Report compiled as a portion of the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS). See this object in the California …

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img Japanese Americans relocating to a different camp (ddr-densho-37-292)

Original WRA caption: People from the Manzanar Relocation Center were moved to the Tule Lake Segregation Center and quartered in the ten blocks which had been built as an addition at Tule Lake. They arrived in four special trains and were taken directly from the railroad to their new homes. A total of 1876 people came …

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img Camp new arrivals (ddr-densho-37-300)

Original WRA caption: People from the Manzanar Relocation Center were moved to the Tule Lake Segregation Center and quartered in the ten blocks which had been built as an addition at Tule Lake. They arrived in four special trains and were taken directly from the railroad to their new homes. A total of 1876 people came …

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img Japanese Americans relocating to a different camp (ddr-densho-37-290)

Original WRA caption: People from the Manzanar Relocation Center were moved to the Tule Lake Segregation Center and quartered in the ten blocks which had been built as an addition at Tule Lake. They arrived in four special trains and were taken directly from the railroad to their new homes. A total of 1876 people came …

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img Camp new arrivals (ddr-densho-37-293)

Original WRA caption: People from the Manzanar Relocation Center were moved to the Tule Lake Segregation Center and quartered in the ten blocks which had been built as an addition at Tule Lake. They arrived in four special trains and were taken directly from the railroad to their new homes. A total of 1876 people came …

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img Japanese Americans relocating to a different camp (ddr-densho-37-291)

Original WRA caption: People from the Manzanar Relocation Center were moved to the Tule Lake Segregation Center and quartered in the ten blocks which had been built as an addition at Tule Lake. They arrived in four special trains and were taken directly from the railroad to their new homes. A total of 1876 people came …

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img Japanese Americans relocating to a different camp (ddr-densho-37-295)

Original WRA caption: People from the Manzanar Relocation Center were moved to the Tule Lake Segregation Center and quartered in the ten blocks which had been built as an addition at Tule Lake. They arrived in four special trains and were taken directly from the railroad to their new homes. A total of 1876 people came …

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img Camp new arrivals (ddr-densho-37-297)

Original WRA caption: People from the Manzanar Relocation Center were moved to the Tule Lake Segregation Center and quartered in the ten blocks which had been built as an addition at Tule Lake. They arrived in four special trains and were taken directly from the railroad to their new homes. A total of 1876 people came …

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doc Granada Pioneer Vol. II No. 57 (May 20, 1944) (ddr-densho-147-170)

Selected article titles: "Center Milk Supply to be Increased" (p. 1), "Dillon Myer Lauds Evacuee Seasonal Workers' Conduct" (p. 1), "Urges Evacuee Storage of Personal Property" (p. 1), "Local Segregees Depart for Tule Lake Thursday Night" (p. 1), "American Doughboys Deplore Discrimination" (p. 2), "Survey Reveals Evacuees Not Affected by Cutbacks" (p. 2), "Spanish Consul to …

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doc Tulean Dispatch Magazine Section (October 1942) (ddr-densho-65-63)

Selected article titles: "Life at Tule Lake" (p. 1), "Stardusting" (p. 2), "Incidentally" (p. 2), "Pattern of a Coda" (p. 3), "Senility: An Impression" (p. 4), "Behaviorist in Love" (p. 4), "Morning After..." (p. 5), "Map of Tule Lake Project" (p. 6), "Rubber Tire Supply Dwindling: Colonists as Well as Caucasian Personnel Walk to Work" (p. …

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img Work-leave crew (ddr-densho-5-13)

These workers received permission to leave the Tule Lake concentration camp in California to harvest sugar beets on this farm in Utah. Left to right: Ted Matsushita, Orly Garner (the farm's owner), and Joe Matsuzawa.

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doc Topaz Times Vol. IV No. 39 (September 30, 1943) (ddr-densho-142-219)

Selected article titles: "476 in Last Movement to Tule Lake" (p. 1), "Centers' Fire Losses Below Nat'l Average" (p. 1), "Board Activity Defined to Remove Misconceptions" (p. 2), "Mitsue Endo Now Center Resident" (p. 2).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-142-219/

doc Poston Chronicle Vol. XXIV No. 18 (October 23, 1945) (ddr-densho-145-675)

Selected article titles: "A Happy Ending" (p. 1), "Closing Date Set for Tule Lake" (p. 1), "Board of Equalization Permits Issued to All" (p. 3), "Storage Time Limit" (p. 3), "Current Population Figures" (p. 3).

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img Looking down a firebreak towards Castle Rock (ddr-densho-298-7)

Caption on reverse: "A shot of the 'firebreak' (space) between barrack 'blocks' (about 9-10 barracks) in Tule Lake. The cliff in the background we called 'Castle Rock.' Fran and I climbed it every day."

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img Japanese Americans transferring to a different camp (ddr-densho-37-64)

Original WRA caption: A group of 254 evacuees transferred from the Minidoka Relocation Center to the Tule Lake Center boards the train at Hunt siding after riding the five miles from the center in trucks.

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doc The Newell Star, Vol. I, No. 5 (April 6, 1944) (ddr-densho-284-10)

Selected article titles: "Sentence Nine Draft Evaders" (p. 1), "Duplicate Forms Needed for Repatriation-Records" (p. 1), "Personnel Mess Fire Caused by Overheating" (p. 2), and "Groundwork Laid for Tule Lake Baseball Association" (p. 6).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-284-10/

doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Yoshito Shibata (ddr-densho-356-238)

Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Yoshito Shibata while en-route to visit his family at Tule Lake. In the letter he explains his sudden trip to visit family, and why the letter is brief.

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