topaz internment camp

(16 images of internment at Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California and Topaz Relocation Center, Utah)
(movie watching in the grandstand, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California)
Mess Hall
(line up for mess hall, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California)
(passing rumors, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California)
(lining up for typhid and smallpox shots, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California)
(delivery to Barrack 16, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California)
(Americanization class, Topaz Relocation Center, Utah)
In Topaz
(women waiting for men to be searched for contraband, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California)
In Topaz, "Motion pictures were shown weekly in the grandstand, but the 16mm. film was inadequate."
(women bathing, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California)
(line-up for restrooms, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California)
(carrying handmade mattresses to barracks, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California)
(boarding buses headed for Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California)
(cleaning horse stalls, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California)
Building a Miniature Aquatic Park
(baggage distribution, Topaz Relocation Center, Utah)
Group of Issei Men
(mess hall dining, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California)
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