Tanforan Assembly Center
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The Tanforan Assembly Center was created to temporarily detain nearly 8,000 Japanese Americans, mostly from the San Francisco Bay Area, under the auspices of Executive Order 9066. After the order was
A family arrives at the Tanforan grandstand. Dorothea Lange, 1942.
All maintenance work, repair and construction is done by volunteer workers of Japanese ancestry. This gang of boys and young men are digging a drainage tank along the front of one of the barracks. Lange, 1942.
Converted horse stalls
Barracks
San Bruno station (BART)
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San Bruno station is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station located adjacent to the Tanforan shopping center in San Bruno, California. It consists of two main tracks and a shared underground island platform
Tanforan Assembly Center
…March 2012, the Tanforan Assembly Center Memorial Committee was formed to exhibit photographs of detainees at Tanforan on the concourse level of the San Bruno BART station; the photographs were drawn from those taken by famed documentary photographer Dorothea Lange in 1942 and some were paired with photographs of the same…
San Bruno station platform in August 2015