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Tule Lake Segregation Center, 1943-1945

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8, 16, 18-23, 26-27

Scope and Contents

Contained are materials issued and circulated in the Tule Lake Segregation Center in California. Included are:

  • Co-op news = 組合ニュース, extra
  • Information bulletin (Newell, California): three issues of "Information bulletin"
  • Newell star = 鶴嶺湖新報: issues of a camp newspaper. Japanese sections only
  • Tule Lake Relocation Project map = 鶴嶺湖一覧地圖: two maps of the Tule Lake camp in English and Japanese
  • Letter and announcement circulated in the Tule Lake camp: a letter from John L. Burling, Assistant Attorney General to Masao Sakamoto, Chairman, Sokuji Kikoku Hoshi Dan and Tsutomou Higashi, Chairman, Hokoku Seinendan; and an announcement from Paul A. Taylor, Project Director to incarcerees in the Tule Lake Segregation Center. Both documents were circulated among the incarcerees in the Tule Lake camp
  • Letter from B. Y. Read, Colonel, AGD Adjutant General Western Defense Command proclaiming the rescission of the exclusion order. It addressed Atsushi Art Ishida in the Tule Lake camp while he had been transferred to the Minidoka incarceration camp in Idaho
  • Ephemera: moving receipt, Tri-State High School student's daily schedule, concert program, a Christmas card which Atsushi Art Ishida printed and sold in the camp

Dates

  • 1943-1945

Conditions Governing Access

There are no access restrictions on this collection.

Extent

From the Series: 2 boxes (1 document box and 1 box album)

Language of Materials

English

Japanese

Creator

Repository Details

Part of the California State University Dominguez Hills, Gerth Archives and Special Collections Repository

Contact:
University Library South -5039 (Fifth Floor)
1000 E. Victoria St.
Carson CA 90747
310-243-3895