INTERNMENT ARTWORK
AIRED: Season 2, Episode 2
Season 3, Episode 7
THE DETECTIVE: Tukufu Zuberi
THE PLACE: San Francisco, California
THE CASE:
A San Francisco archive has discovered a set of watercolor paintings of what appears to be a prison camp.
Piecing them together shows they were painted on the back of a Japanese-American internment notice from 1942.
What is the story behind these paintings? Who was the artist? And what was his or her fate?
History Detectives travels to the West Coast to solve the puzzle, uncovering the dramatic story of one of the 120,000 Americans citizens who spent years behind barbed wire, guilty only of being of Japanese descent.
More Leads
Tule Lake Relocation Center
A thorough overview of life in the camp, as well as many pictures of camp life.
Tule Lake Internment Camp, California - Photographs and Artifacts
This site has interesting photographs of many of the crafts made by internees at Tule Lake.
Excerpt - Tule Lake book
An excerpt from the memoir of a former Tule Lake internee.
Japanese Internment Website - Camps Overview
A multi-media site with many first-person accounts, and the complete story of the wartime relocation centers.
University of Southern California - Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive
The Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive contains many photos from all the camps.
Tule Lake Committee
The website for the Tule Lake pilgrimage.
Trivia Quiz Episode 2
Think you have a case for the History Detectives? Send us your mystery here. 