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


Image by The Library of Congress
Japanese-American camp, war emergency evacuation, [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 Japanse Americans in Malheur County, Ore. Re-identified as Tule Lake because of similarity to LC-USW36-789, which shows Abalone Mountain.
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Photo shows five smiling women.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
Japanese Americans.
Women.
World War, 1939-1945
Relocation camps.
United States–California–Newell

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

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a35015

Call Number: LC-USW36-788