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Title
[Tule Lake scrapbook]
Date Created and/or Issued
1942
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of the Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library.
Description
Scrapbook created in Tule Lake camp by Japanese American students. Contents include drawings, art, holiday greeting cards prints, poetry and signatures of student groups.
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.
Type
image
Format
Scrapbooks; Holiday cards; Illustrations; Poetry
42 pages, handwritten, color illustrations
application/pdf
Identifier
mei_03_20_001
ucsb_mei_0053
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/13035
Language
English
Subject
World War II--Incarceration camps--Arts and literature
World War II--Incarceration camps--Living conditions
Community activities--Festivals, celebrations, and holidays
Arts and literature--Visual arts--Drawing
Arts and literature--Visual arts--Painting
Arts and literature--Literary arts--Poetry
Community activities--Associations and organizations--Student clubs
Identity and values--Youth
Place
Newell, California
Incarceration Camps--Tule Lake
Source
Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt509nf34j/
Robert Billigmeier Collection

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