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12016-03-28T19:11:17-07:00Zarah Ferrarifce7cef03458dbb9b1eca281924074181a2de91081808Flickr Photo Courtesy of Kelly Michalsplain2016-04-18T21:36:43-07:00Zarah Ferrarifce7cef03458dbb9b1eca281924074181a2de910Built rapidly in 1942, the barracks were made of tarpaper and cheap pine wood derived from “designs based on military barracks, making them ill suited for family living” (Oregon State Archives Exhibit). The average barrack contained “six one-room apartments ranging in size from 15 by 20 feet to 24 by 20 feet” (Ibid). The barracks had very little privacy, one detainee remembering that because of the wood used “the knots would fall so [they] could see in the neighbor's room” as well as hear them (Ibid). The disturbing conditions of the barracks did not end at the material and noise, but they were also absent of any “plumbing or cooking facilities” (Ibid). In the summer, the barracks were blistering, and in the winter frigid. In each barrack block there was “one bath, laundry and toilet building” which was “shared by upwards of 250 people" (Oregon State Archive Exhibit). In order to make the conditions livable, detainees had to improve the conditions themselves, and through making their mark upon the architecture, succeeded in establishing their existence as a human, normal, and american one.
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12016-03-28T18:12:27-07:00Zarah Ferrarifce7cef03458dbb9b1eca281924074181a2de910Tule Lake Garden3Tule Lake Relocation Center Newell, California. Evacuee Flower Garden. Digital image. Wikimedia Commons. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Apr. 2016. .media/Tule_Lake_Relocation_Center,_Newell,_California._Evacuee_flower_garden._-_NARA_-_539438.jpgplain2016-04-18T20:29:15-07:00Zarah Ferrarifce7cef03458dbb9b1eca281924074181a2de910