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Jack Iwata Collection

Jack Iwata - Tule Lake Orchestra


Published: July 24, 2007 Modified: Feb. 11, 2025

An orchestra was yet another way for people to get involved in their community during camp. Perhaps this orchestra played at the dance in the previous slide!
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Description
Photo of young people in an orchestra. Front row, right, four girls are holding violins; front row, left are boys holding a saxophone and a banjo. In the center of the front row is the conductor, a man, holding a baton. 2nd row only faces of the group can be seen.

Caption
It was so cold that my shutter of camera was shaken.

copy negative

Newell, Calif., c. 1942

(93.102.42)

Gift of Jack and Peggy Iwata

Jack Iwata Collection

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Jack Iwata was born in Seattle, Washington, but grew up in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. He returned to the United States when he was 16 years old, and attended Whittier College in Whittier, California. Jack began to work with famous ph…
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