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Crowd at the canteen, Central Utah Relocation Project, Topaz, Utah, 1942-1944
Miné Okubo1942-1944
Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, United States
A crowd gathers in the canteen, or general store to purchase dry goods and exchange information. Two men in hats and dark overcoats, warm their hands at a stove in the left foreground. Others stand in line at counters to purchase items on shelves along the walls. A boy stands next to a dog. Another woman carries a dog in her arms. Mine Okubo, wearing a hood and coat stands in the right foreground, her face in profile and her back to the viewer.
Details
- Title: Crowd at the canteen, Central Utah Relocation Project, Topaz, Utah, 1942-1944
- 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, 2007.62.163)
- 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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