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Japanese-American camp, war emergency relocation, [Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, Calif.] (LOC)

Japanese-American camp, war emergency relocation, [Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, Calif.]

 

1942 or 1943

 

1 transparency : color.

 

Notes:

Original caption card speculated that this photo was part of a series taken by Russell Lee to document Japanese Americans in Malheur County, Ore. Re-identified by D. Johnson, 2006.

Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.

Photograph shows overview of camp with Abalone Mountain in the distance.

Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

 

Subjects:

World War, 1939-1945

Japanese Americans

Concentration camps

United States--Oregon

 

Format: Transparencies--Color

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-55 (DLC) 93845501

 

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a35016

 

Call Number: LC-USW36-789

 

 

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Taken circa 1939