Lot 1852
Santa Anita assembly center, Santa Anita, Calif., cover with assembly center return address sent airmail special delivery to the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters, 6¢ Transport and 10 special delivery tied by Aug 19, 1942 machine cancel, backstamped San Jose (county seat) special delivery receiver, Very Fine. The corner card indicates that the sender was the young wife of Kazuyuki Takahashi, a professor of biology at Stanford University and later a doctor of internal medicine at Oakland's Kaiser Hospital. In a 1986 article in National Geographic, Mrs. Takahashi indicated that "We honeymooned at Santa Anita assembly center."
Estimate 300 - 400
Santa Anita operated as an assembly center from March 27 through October 27 and had a peak population of 7,818.
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| Realized $270 |
