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[Robert Ross photographing Tule Lake concentration camp from watchtower, Newell, California, ca. 1943]
[Robert Ross photographing Tule Lake concentration camp from watchtower, Newell, California, ca. 1943]
[Robert Ross photographing Tule Lake concentration camp from watchtower, Newell, California, ca. 1943]

[Robert Ross photographing Tule Lake concentration camp from watchtower, Newell, California, ca. 1943]

Date1943
DimensionsNegative Type: 47 1/4 in. (120 cm)
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LineGift of Jack and Peggy Iwata
Object number93.102.54
DescriptionRobert Ross stands in watchtower photographing Tule Lake concentration camp in Newell, California during World War II, ca. 1943. Man in hat and coat stands with back to viewer at left holds a camera to his eye, focusing on a wide flat land covered with barracks which held Japanese Americans. Mountains in distance. Vertical column in shadow at right.;1 copy negative : b&w ; 120 mm , Title provided by cataloger.

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