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Description
Unpublished manuscript includes a collection of diary entries, letters, and essays written by school students incarcerated at the Tule Lake camp and collected through the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS). The writings include first-person descriptions of travel to the Tule Lake camp, adapting to camp, limitations of camp, day-to-day camp life, family life, community life, social institutions, recreation, education, terrain, weather conditions, and housing. 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
text
Format
Manuscripts iv, 531 pages, illustrations, typescript application/pdf
World War II--Incarceration camps World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation') Social sciences Social sciences--Fieldwork World War II--Incarceration camps--Social and recreational activities World War II--Incarceration camps--Social relations World War II--Incarceration camps--Living conditions World War II--Incarceration camps--Housing--Barracks World War II--Incarceration camps--Education World War II--Incarceration camps--Facilities, services, and camp administration Community activities--Recreational activities Community activities--Sports Education Identity and values--Nisei Identity and values--Family Identity and values--Youth World War II--Incarceration camps--Work and jobs World War II--Incarceration camps--The Journey World War II--Incarceration camps--Impact of incarceration Arts and literature--Literary arts--Essays Identity and values--Women
Place
Newell, California Incarceration Camps--Tule Lake
Source
Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
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