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Title
Departure for resettlement in the East
Creator
Billigmeier, Robert Henry: compiler
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
A large crowd of Japanese American incarcerees gather around packed vehicle with trailer. Caption on back of photograph reads, "Departure for resettlement in the East." From photo album of Robert Billigmeier.
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
Photographs
black and white
image/jpeg
Identifier
mei_05_005
ucsb_mei_0068
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/13056
Language
English
Subject
World War II--Incarceration camps
World War II--Leaving camp--'Resettlement
Community activities--Travel
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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