Tag: Halloween

image of house with Halloween decorations

BOO! Haunted Properties in the Records of the National Register of Historic Places

by ddancis, posted in Electronic Records, Interior/Environment

This post is part of an ongoing “road trip” featuring records from the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and National Historic Landmarks Program Records, 2013 – 2017 (National Archives ID 20812721), a series within Record Group 79: Records of the National Park Service. Photograph of Halloween Decorations (National Archives Identifier 202803005). It’s October, the air is … Continue reading BOO! Haunted Properties in the Records of the National Register of Historic Places

Halloween at the Tule Lake Relocation Center

by jclingerman, posted in Asian Pacific American Heritage, WWII Home Front

By Jason Clingerman 70 years ago today, Japanese Americans at the Tule Lake Relocation Center celebrated a harvest festival by wearing costumes. At the Tule Lake Relocation Center, later the Tule Lake Segregation Center, over 24,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned because of suspected disloyalty to the U.S. government under Executive Order 9066.  Starting in 1943, Tule … Continue reading Halloween at the Tule Lake Relocation Center