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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 brief segment shows hands holding a homemade photo album with wooden hinged binding, labeled "Snapshots, Tule Lake California", with a relief-carved image of Castle Rock; hands open the photo album to reveal several black and white photographs inside (00:16).

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 8:30 a.m.


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