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Japanese Internment : Tule Lake, 1935-1988.
MANUSCRIPT 2721-2723
Collection Overview

Title:

Japanese Internment: Tule Lake, 1935-1988

Creator/Contributor:

Oshiro, Mary, creator, collector.

Date:

1935 (issued)

Contents:

Box 2721: Chronologies, artwork, prewar and wartime photos, correspondence. Box 2722: Camp publications, official documents, individuals' documents, miscellaneous papers. Box 2723: Articles, map, transcript, bound book, exhibit captions.

Subject:

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Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945

Note:

Mary Oshiro was interned at the Tule Lake Relocation center beginning in 1942. She did watercolors of the camp and its surroundings, and worked as an artist and stencil cutter for the camp newspaper, the Tulean Dispatch.
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 seven wards, each of which was divided into nine 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 the centralized War Relocation Authority. Social and athletic activities boosted morale, especially during the first year. Two-thirds of the camp's internees were United States born and mostly under 21 years of age.
Japanese Internment, Tule Lake, Mary Oshiro.
Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.
Finding aid available; folder level control.

Physical Description:

print
3 manuscript boxes, 15 1/2 x 12 x 3 in.

Language:

English

Identifier:

MANUSCRIPT 2721-2723

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.