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Building furniture and repairing barracks, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942
Miné Okubo1942-1944
Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, United States
A woman with flipped forelock of hair, Mine Okubo, fixes up living quarters, a former horse stall, with her brother, Toku, at Tanforan Assembly Center, California during World War II. Dressed in a cross-patterned top and jeans, Mine leans proper left knee on plank as she saws it over a crate at left. Toku sits with back to viewer as he hammers a nail into wall, background center. Pieces of lumber litter the floor alongside benches topped with loose nails in foreground right. Empty shelf below window that flanks open doorway, background, right.
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- Title: Building furniture and repairing barracks, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942
- Creator: Mine Okubo
- Creator Lifespan: 1912-2001
- Date Created: 1942-1944
- Location Created: Topaz (Central Utah)
- Physical Dimensions: H: 9.25 in, W: 13 in
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Japanese American National Museum. For licensing and reuse, contact JANM.
- External Link: Mine Okubo Collection
- Medium: paper, ink, mat board
- Credit Line: Japanese American National Museum (Gift of Mine Okubo Estate, 2007.62.52)
- Context: This is one of 198 ink drawings Mine Okubo included in Citizen 13660, her graphic memoir, which was the first of its kind and captured her experience at Tanforan and Topaz, during the two years in which she was incarcerated.
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