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Extraordinary Autograph Album of a Young Japanese Girl Imprisoned in the Tule Lake Concentration Camp During WWII — “…Tule Lake will remain in my memory for ever…”
Very moving autograph album kept by a Japanese girl during her internment at The Tule Lake War Relocation Center, the most repressive of the ten concentration camps housing Japanese Americans during World War II. Owned by a young woman named Akiko, the autograph book contains approximately 125 entries, with the earliest inscribed by her fellow classmates graduating from McCarver Jr. High School in Tacoma, Washington in January 1942. These ominous well-wishes of good luck from Akiko’s classmates quickly segue to entries in July 1942 at Pinedale, California, one of thirteen temporary detention centers following approval of Executive Order 9066 on 19 February 1942, which established the camps. Then, beginning in October 1942 until September 1943, all entries are from Tule Lake, with several individuals recording their block and cell number in lieu of the place. The last entries from late 1943 make mention of Akiko’s upcoming transfer to a different camp (in Minidoka, Idaho), which mirrors the historical record of low-risk inmates who scored “high” on loyalty questionnaires being moved to lesser security camps. It was in 1943 when Tule Lake became a maximum security prison housing those who the government considered disruptive or disloyal. Sold for $2,400.
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