Object Type: Folder
In Folder: Art & Rare Books
Tanforan Totalizer, Volume 1, No. 19, September 12, 1942 - This issue is the final issue and larger than the others because it provides a contemporary history of the camp, with individual reports detailing the creation and issues faced by various facilities such as the school, library, medical center, mess hall and others. Also reports that a group of 214 internees left for Utah the week before to prepare Topaz for the rest of the people of Tanforan. The first general group to move to Topaz would leave three days after this paper was issued and contained a report on embarkation procedures and a preliminary embarkation schedule. An article entitled "So this is Shangri-La" featured a map of Utah, with a large arrow pointing to the placement of Topaz, and described its topography, weather, agricultural possibilities and more. In addition, the paper is filled with at least 45 in-text illustrations by Bennie Nobori, who was an animator at Disney prior to being interned, as well as Nobuo Kitagaki a noted San Francisco artist who also served in military intelligence during the war.
Tanforan Assembly Center
