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Carrying mattresses to the barrack, Central Utah Relocation Project, Topaz, Utah, 1942
Miné Okubo1942-1944
Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Toku Okubo carries a tick mattress over his back to their newly assigned barrack at Topaz. Mine follows behind carrying a cloth bundle. Men unload mattresses from a truck stopped in the left midground. Five barracks are lined diagonally in the background. Tall mounds of dirt border both sides of the street.
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- Title: Carrying mattresses to the barrack, Central Utah Relocation Project, Topaz, Utah, 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: ink, paper
- Credit Line: Japanese American National Museum (Gift of Mine Okubo Estate, 2007.62.130)
- 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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