Camp Guard Tower
date: label: date made
content: 1944
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: This photograph is of the guard tower from the Jerome incarceration camp in Denson, Arkansas. The Nakano family were relocated to the Jerome camp after Tule Lake. Guard towers like this were commonplace in prison camps like Jerome. Guards would watch over the Japanese Americans constantly during the imprisonment. The barbed wire behind the guard tower really shows how these camps were prisons. The Japanese Americans who were forcibly removed to these camps lost privacy in almost all aspects of their lives.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Arkansas, Jerome
topic: label: related event
content: Japanese American Internment
label: related event
content: World War II
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Japanese American
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content: Executive Order 9066
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Janice Faden
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0037.04
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0037.04
label: accession number
content: 2016.0037
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 6 1/16 in; 10.16 cm x 15.40002 cm