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vh Susie "Jinx" Fujii Interview Segment 7 (ddr-one-7-69-7)

First impressions of Tule Lake: "I was really shocked"

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vh Mary Haruka Nakamura Interview Segment 11 (ddr-one-7-65-11)

Memories of the Tule Lake concentration camp, California

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vh Nancy Nakata Gohata Interview Segment 12 (ddr-densho-1003-3-12)

Living in a trailer camp after leaving Tule Lake

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doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 21 No. 26 (December 29, 1945) (ddr-pc-17-52)

Selected article titles: "Tule Lake Expatriates Will Receive New Hearings Soon" (p. 1), "Japanese Canadian Evacuees Seek to Cancel Requests For Repatriation to Japan" (p. 1), "Little Opposition Against Nisei Remains in West Coast Area (p. 3), "Railroad to Use Evacuees on Tracks in Utah" (p. 8).

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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).

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doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 78, No. 18 (May 10, 1974) (ddr-pc-46-18)

Selected article titles: "Marker at Topaz Contemplated" (p. 1), "Tule Lake Pilgrimage: More of Wartime Camp Remains than Expected, Says Advance Man on Return" (p. 1), "Living, Working in Japan Unique Life for Sansei" (pp. 2, 4), and "From Happy Valley: Racism and JACL" (p. 2).

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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 North Portland Evacuazette Vol. I No. 17 (July 14, 1942) (ddr-densho-120-26)

Selected article titles: "Some to Leave Here for Tule Lake Soon. Pinedale Residents Begin North-ward Journey" (p. 1), "Nisei Forum Acclaimed Success. Elective Advisors Chief Topic of Forum" (p. 1), "Physical Examinations Completed" (p. 3), "Who Does Mom's Work? General Laborers Do Everything" (p. 4).

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doc Rohwer Outpost Vol. IV No. 49 (June 21, 1944) (ddr-densho-143-176)

Selected article titles: "Beware of Fire Dangers" (p. 1), "English Classes Formed Throughout the Center" (p. 1), "Practical Raffle Prizes Run from Luggage to Can" (p. 1), "Tule Lake to Limit Visits" (p. 2), "Chicago Still Open for Resettlement" (p. 3), "Editorial: Nisei Public Relations" (p. 4).

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doc Poston Chronicle Vol. XVI No. 17 (November 12, 1943) (ddr-densho-145-434)

Selected article titles: "Residents Save Huge Crop at Tule Lake" (p. 1), "Two Internees Arrive Here" (p. 1), "400 Leave Clearance Cases Heard by Hearing Board" (p. 1), "Exchangees on Last Leg of Trip Home" (p. 1), "Editorial: A Joke May Become a Reality" (p. 2).

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doc Information Roundup Vol. VI, No. 15 (ddr-densho-156-384)

Section titles: "Fryer at Manzanar"; "Shirrell to Leave Tule Lake"; "Reorganization Takes Form"; "School Budget Being Prepared"; "Evacuee Property Adds to Staff"; "Minidoka Project Reports"; "November Report from Manzanar"; "Central Utah: November 27"; "Gila Crops Increase"; "Poston Residents to Decide on Net Work"; "'The Last Roundup.'"

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doc Daily Press Review, Vol. VI, No. 17 (ddr-densho-156-281)

Article titles: "YWCA Official to Visit Hunt"; "Rites Held for Harvest Worker"; "Pierce Starts Official Probe of Newell"; "State Warns WRA Farm Here on Labeling"; "Hunt Has Big Hallowe'en Show"; "Tule Lake Sells Vegetables"; "Army Orders 4 to Get Out"; "Letter to Editor"; "Urbanites as Farm Laborers."

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img Exterior of barracks and Castle Rock (ddr-densho-35-4)

These barracks are now on the property of a Tule Lake farmer. A rock formation that the Japanese Americans called "Castle Rock" can be seen in the background. After obtaining permission to go through the gates, camp inmates could climb to the top of the formation.

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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 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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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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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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vh Kay Shimada Interview (ddr-densho-1010-16)

Nisei male. Born May 1, 1924, in Clarksburg, California. Grew up in Clarksburg, where parents ran a farm. During World War II, removed to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Served in the military during the war. Returned to the Sacramento area and reestablished farming business.

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vh Emi Yamamoto Interview (ddr-densho-1015-6)

Nisei female. Born October 3, 1919, in Fresno, California. Grew up in Watsonville, California, helping on family's strawberry farm. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, was removed to the Salinas Assembly Center and the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. After World War II, returned to Watsonville.

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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.

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doc The Newell Star, Vol. II, No. 50 (December 14, 1945) (ddr-densho-284-108)

Selected article titles: "Tule Lake Figures: Over 5500 Relocate Since First of Year" (p. 1), "Nisei Merchant Marine Relates Trip to Japan" (p. 2), "Monday, Dec. 17: Deadline for Repatriates' Property Disposal Is Set" (p. 2), and "Former Residents Write of Conditions in East" (p. 3).

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img Japanese Americans preparing shells for jewelry making (ddr-densho-2-50)

Kumataro (left) and Kadju Nishimura measure and separate shells to be used in jewelry-making. The Nishimuras woke up at the crack of dawn and dug waist-deep holes to find the shells. The shells were then bleached white and later painted. Tule Lake was drained in the early 1900s. The camp was located on the old lake …

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doc WRA Project Analysis Series No. 9: Preliminary Survey of Resistances to Resettlement at the Tule Lake Relocation Center (ddr-densho-171-205)

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doc [Minutes of the special meeting of the divisional responsible men of the Tule Lake Center, April 8, 1944] (ddr-csujad-2-19)

Meeting minutes of incarceree-led Tule Lake Camp government. Describes donations to the camp, election of a new representative body, and a fight within the camp. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sjs_sch_0019

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doc Letter from Oregon Governor Sprague and rebuttal from Ichiro Hasegawa, Richard Higawa, and Ken Sekiguchi from Tule Lake (ddr-densho-423-156)

Letter sent to President Roosevelt and reprinted in the Oregon Journal, arguing that Japanese incarcerees should be forced to work on the sugar beet harvest or be deported to Japan. The detailed rebuttal from Hasegawa, Higawa and Sekiguchi gives exact numbers of available labor, problems with work conditions on the farms, hypocrisy of demanding the removal …

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