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Color silent amateur footage of life in the World War II Japanese American detention facility in Tule Lake, California, made 1942-1945 by teacher Charles Palmerlee.

This segment begins with a title card, "-Worship- Tule Lake Union Church", with a graphic cross; Mr. and Mrs. Breece arrive with an unidentified couple; Mrs. Shigeo Tanabe [dark]; groups outside the Tule Lake Union Church building; the Reverend and Mrs. Shigeo Tanabe exit the church with an unidentified young man; a title card, "'Father Dai'" (Rev. Daisuke Kitagawa), an Episcopal priest at Tule Lake (01:25).

Credits: Charles Palmerlee Collection, Gift of Mrs. Charles Seward Palmerlee, Japanese American National Museum (96.47.8). Preserved and made accessible in part by a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation.

HNRC — Last modified Aug 25 2012 8:42 a.m.


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