Tanforan Assembly Center (San Bruno, Calif.)
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Japanese American relocation collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 0144
Abstract
The Japanese American relocation collection (1941-1945) contain materials concerned with the War Relocation Authority (WRA), the Tule Lake Relocation Center, the Topaz Relocation Center, and the Heart Mountain Relocation Project. The collection contains correspondence, reports, statistics, magazine articles, newspaper articles, and other related material. In 1942, after the Pearl Harbor Bombing, Americans of Japanese ancestry, living on the West Coast, were ordered to internment centers in...
Dates:
1941-1945
Willis Carl and Pearl Graul Nugent papers
Collection
Identifier: ACCN 2471
Abstract
The Willis Carl and Pearl Graul Nugent papers (1940-2009) contain biographical information, a sermon, publications, and drawings of the Topaz Relocation Center.
Dates:
1940-2009
Willis Carl and Pearl Graul Nugent photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: P1584
Abstract
Willis Carl Nugent and his wife Pearl Graul Nugent worked as Protestant missionaries in Japan beginning in the 1920s. In 1942, they moved to Delta, Utah, to minister at the Central Utah Relocation Center, or Topaz. This collection contians photographs, postcards, and cards documenting the Nugents' work at Topaz and serving as missionaries in Japan dating from 1927 to 1951.
Dates:
1927-1957