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Title
View of buildings at Tule Lake Segregation Center
Creator
Sylvester, Owen M.: photographer
Date Created and/or Issued
1943-11
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
Permission to publish the image must be obtained from the CSUDH Archives as owner of the physical item and copyright. In instances when the copyright ownership is not clear it is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain copyright permission.
Description
A row of barracks at Tule Lake Segregation Center are photographed from inside a vehicle. Caption on back of photograph reads: Cruising along streets of Camp Tulelake during Jap disturbance in Nov. 43.
The Owen M. Sylvester Photograph Collection (1942-1943, undated) contains 32 black-and-white photographs taken by Sylvester at Tule Lake. The majority of the photographs were taken inside the Tule Lake Incarceration Camp in Newell, California in November 1943 and feature scenes containing housing quarters, the stockade area, imprisoned Japanese Americans, and members of the 772nd Military Police Battalion. Also included are photographs depicting scenery from directly outside of the camp. Photographs contain captions possibly written by Sylvester.
Type
image
Format
Photographs
black and white, 2.75 x 2.25 inches
image/jpeg
Identifier
tul_01_01_010
csudh_tul_0015
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/55257
Language
English
Subject
World War II--Incarceration camps--Conflicts, intimidation, and violence--Tule Lake strike
World War II--Resistance and dissidence--Segregation and Tule Lake
Place
Newell, California
Incarceration Camps--Tule Lake
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections;
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c84b35zz
Owen Sylvester Tule Lake Photo Collection

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