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Jack Iwata Collection

Jack Iwata -"Teacher and students in Japanese National Grammar School at Tule Lake concentration camp, Newell, CA, ca.1942-1945" (Jack Iwata-"Teacher and students in Japanese National Grammer School at Tule Lake concentration camp, Newell, CA, ca.1942-19…


Published: Feb. 8, 2025 Modified: April 11, 2025


Description
1 copy negative : b&w; | Rear view of Japanese language classroom as teacher points to blackboard of a Japanese national grammer school (Kokumin Gakko) at Tule Lake concentration camp, Newell, California, ca. 1942-1945. Japanese kanji written on board. Male teacher in white and eyeglasses stands at small wooden table at front of class facing students who sit at wooden desks with backs to viewer.

Caption
One of the eight kokumin gakko, Japaneses national grammar schools in the camp. Japanese national grammar schools existed only in Tule Lake.

copy negative
Neg Type: 120.00 mm

Newell, Calif., 1942-1945

(93.102.80)

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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