Tanforan

img Japanese American inside barracks (ddr-densho-151-50)

Original WRA caption: San Bruno, California. A close-up of an entrance of a family apartment. Note that the windows in this unit have been enlarged. Five people occupy two small rooms, the inner one of which is without outside door or windows.

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img Japanese Americans arriving at Tanforan (ddr-densho-151-162)

Original caption: San Bruno, California. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry have just arrived at this Assembly center. They have been registered and are now awaiting a guide to show them to their place in the barracks. Later they will be transferred to War Relocation Authority centers.

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img Japanese Americans waiting in mess hall line (ddr-densho-151-348)

Original caption: San Bruno, California. Supper time: Meal times are the big events of the day at assembly centers. This is a line-up of evacuees waiting for the "B" shift at 5:45 pm. They carry with them their own dishes and cutlery in bags to protect them from the dust. They, themselves, individually wash their own …

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img Japanese American next to barracks (ddr-densho-151-352)

Original caption: San Bruno, California. Many evacuees suffer from lack of their accustomed activity. The attitude of the man shown in this photograph is typical of the residents in assembly centers, and because there is not much to do and not enough work available, they mill around, they visit, they stroll and they linger to while …

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img Preschool class (ddr-densho-151-331)

Original caption: San Bruno, California. Pre-school evacuee children leaving the building for recess at this assembly center. There are about 25 children enrolled with six volunteer student teachers being trained by a Mills College graduate, all of Japanese ancestry.

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img Japanese Americans carving wood (ddr-densho-151-338)

Original caption: San Bruno, California. Father and son while away the hours carving small wooden animals for the children in front of their home in the barracks. They have been living at the Assembly center for approximately two weeks.

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img New arrivals at the Tanforan Assembly Center (ddr-densho-151-23)

Original WRA caption: San Bruno, California. Family of Japanese ancestry arrives at assembly center at Tanforan Race Track. Evacuees will be transferred later to War Relocation Authority centers where they will be housed for the duration.

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img Japanese Americans working in garden (ddr-densho-151-340)

Original caption: San Bruno, California. Mrs. Fujita and her neighbor inspecting the tiny vegetable garden she has planted in front of their barracks.

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img Japanese American family arriving at Tanforan (ddr-densho-151-156)

Original caption: San Bruno, California. Family of Japanese ancestry arrives at assembly center at Tanforan Race Track. Evacuees will be transferred later to War Relocation Authority centers where they will be housed for the duration.

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img Japanese Americans arriving at Tanforan (ddr-densho-151-161)

Original caption: San Bruno, California. Families of Japanese ancestry arrive at assembly center at Tanforan Race Track. Evacuees will be transferred later to War Relocation Authority centers where they will be housed for the duration.

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img Horse stalls at Tanforan Assembly Center (ddr-densho-151-30)

Original WRA caption: San Bruno, California. Near view of horse-stall, left from the days when what is now Tanforan Assembly Center, was the famous Tanforan Race Track. Most of these stalls have been converted into family living quarters for Japanese.

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img Mass removal (ddr-densho-151-48)

Original WRA caption: Oakland, California. Baggage of evacuees of Japanese ancestry piled on the sidewalk. The Greyhound huses will soon arrive to take this baggage as well as the evacuees to the Tanforan Assembly center under Civilian Exclusion Order Number 28.

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img Japanese Americans in doorway of barracks (ddr-densho-151-335)

Original caption: San Bruno, California. A mother and daughter, Issei and Nissei, who have been living in this Assembly center for one month, are seen at the door of their home in the barracks.

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img Art class (ddr-densho-151-355)

Original caption: San Bruno, California. In the art school at this assembly center. These evacuee children are remaining after hours to continue their creative work.

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doc Letter to Rev. Robert Inglis from Shigeyuki Kusuda (ddr-densho-498-11)

Letter to Robert Inglis from Shigeyuki Kusuda from Tanforan Assembly Center. He arrived May 7 and is settling in as comfortably as possible.

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doc Letter to Rev. Robert Inglis from George Aki (ddr-densho-498-22)

Letter to Robert Inglis from George Aki discussing a church schedule.

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doc Ordination papers by Masayoki Wakai (ddr-densho-498-24)

Masayoshi Wakai's ordination papers expressing his religious history, Christian beliefs, and considerations leading to ministry.

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doc Postcard to Rev. Robert Inglis from Teizo Sato (ddr-densho-498-12)

Postcard to Robert Inglis from Teizo Sato from Tanforan Assembly Center. Sato is thanking Inglis for his kindness and letting him know that he made it safely to Tanforan.

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doc Letter to Rev. Robert Inglis from Masayoshi Wakai (ddr-densho-498-32)

Letter to Robert Inglis from Masayoshi Wakai apoligizing for missing his visit at Tanforan Assembly Center. Wakai also updates Inglis on the goings-on at church in Tanforan.

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doc Minutes of the council called by the independent Japanese Congregational Church, June 11, 1942 (ddr-densho-498-28)

Minutes of the council called by the Independent Japanese Congregational Church in Oakland, California (now at Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California) and the Plymoth Congregational Church in Oakland, California, to be held at the Tanforan Assembly Center to proceed with the examination and ordination of Mr. George Aki and Mr. Masayoshi Wakai, on June 11, …

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doc Letter to Rev. Robert Inglis from Kay Uchida (ddr-densho-498-21)

Letter of gratitude to Robert Inglis from Kay Uchida from Tanforan Assembly Center. Uchida requests a few items to be purchased for them and sent to the assembly center.

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doc Letter to Rev. Robert Inglis from Mitsuko Doris Mizote (ddr-densho-498-36)

Letter to Robert Inglis from Mitsuko Doris Mizote thanking him for his kindness and requesting that he send the seven packages that they left for him.

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doc Letter to Rev. Robert Inglis from Hiro Katayawa (ddr-densho-498-37)

Letter to Robert Inglis from Hiro Katayama letting him know that they are going to Topaz, Utah.

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doc Letter to Rev. Robert Inglis from Masayoshi Wakai and George Aki (ddr-densho-498-31)

Letter to Robert Inglis from Masaysohi Wakai and George Akai thanking him for his support in their successful ordination of ministry. They express how they are performing their ministry duties at Tanforan Assembly Center.

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doc Ordination notes and drafts by Rev. Robert Inglis (ddr-densho-498-26)

Rev. Robert Inglis' notes for the ordination of two Japanese American men at Tanforan June 11, 1942. After 2, numbers jump to 5 then 7, then 12, then 14, then 16-20.

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