Barracks sign

From the Japanese-American internment camp of WWII, Tulelake, California. This one barrack building and the watchtower were moved to the fairgrounds museum to preserve them. There were actually two separate camps, one near Tulelake and a higher-security one at Newell, a few miles south. The Newell camp became the largest Japanese-American internment camp in the USA. Read about the camp here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulelake_camp

The sign was translated for me by Keisuke Togawa, a friend in Japan. It is in Old Japanese and it was difficult for him to read, but it refers to rules about the playground and the number of people who could occupy the building. There were often two or three families per barrack.