Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
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Contents
History
Material Transferred from the Collection
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Tule Lake Relocation Center,
Date (inclusive): 1942-1945
Box Number: 342
Repository:
California State Library
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Unrestricted.
Conditions of Use
Please credit California State Library.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Tule Lake Relocation Center, California State Library.
Access Points
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
Tule Lake Relocation Center (Calif.).
Contents
Personal papers of internees: alien registration i.d.s, housing assignments, work
assignments, clothing allowance receipts, recreation passes, co-op memberships, travel
permits.
Yearbooks, cash advance to enlistees memo, audit of payroll, American Red Cross Receipts
and Expenditures, "Ben Kiroki's Story,"
The American Observer, March 9,
1942 and May 4, 1942.
History
The Tule Lake project, beginning in May 1942, was the second Japanese Relocation Center
in California. Housing between 14,000 and 15,000 evacuees, Tule Lake was comprised of 7
wards each of which was divided into 9 blocks, with blocks being the basic unit of the
project. For each block, an evacuee was selected as manager by the administration. This
power of "self-government" was contained by centralized War Relocation Authority. Social
and athletic activities boosted morale, especially during the first year.
Material Transferred from the Collection
Van Gelder, Robert.
The Enemy in the House. New York: Dial Press, 1940.
Related Collections
Japanese Relocation Center: Tule Lake