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Description
In this photo, two soldiers holding guns are seen surrounding incarcerees, including a mess hall worker at Tule Lake Segregation Center. The caption on back of photograph reads: Major ____ and social worker during disturbance in Jap area; 2 armed E.M.E. Tommy standing by for possible difficulty. 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
World War II--Resistance and dissidence--Segregation and Tule Lake World War II--Incarceration camps--Conflicts, intimidation, and violence--Tule Lake strike
Place
Newell, California Incarceration Camps--Tule Lake
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections;
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