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Description
Monthly publication at Tule Lake incarceration camp including stories, poems, commentary and creative writing. Current issue includes: "An editorial" by Howard M. Imazeki; "Her name is woman" by Riley O'Suga; "Christmas tree" by Shuji Kimura; "Six old bachelors" by Miyoko Takagi; "Looking back" by Eugene Okada; "Great American tragedy" by Tsuyoshi Nakamura; "Pure hell" by Yukio Ozaki; "Junior miss" by Glenn Sato; poetry by Ken Yasuda and Harumi Mary Sakai; "Corn on the cob" by Toko Fujii; Illustrations by Mas Inada, Dick Kurihara, Mas Hirata, and Mosao Goi. Current issue contains a special school section of work by children including: "Christmas last year" by Henry Akiyana; "Back home" by Chiyoko Ishibashi; Poetry by Irene Yoshimura, Reiko Higashi, Minoru Manji, and Ken Miura; Illustrations by Takeshi Yamamoto, Taeko Masui, Florence Oshiro, Bobbie Eto, and Lois Ono. The Robert Billigmeier collection is comprised of materials collected during his work and stay at the Tule Lake incarceration camp conducting research for the University of California’s Japanese Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS). The collection includes: photographs taken during his time at Tule Lake; a scrapbook created by students at Tule Lake in 1942; camp publications; reports and manuscripts; and student writings. Several of the reports and manuscripts draw from the personality cards written by students in the Tule Lake incarceration camp.
World War II--Incarceration camps--Publications World War II--Incarceration camps--Arts and literature Journalism and media Community activities--Festivals, celebrations, and holidays
Place
Newell, California Incarceration Camps--Tule Lake
Source
Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
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