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Evacuees boarding train to Topaz, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942
Miné Okubo1942-1944
Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, United States
People walk through gates carrying luggage and children past friends behind fences and soldiers with rifles toward waiting train on September 16th to depart for the Central Utah Relocation Center, also known as Topaz, from Tanforan Assembly Center, California during World War II. In bottom right corner foreground, three men and a woman watch departure from behind barbed wire. Some people wave as they leave, walking between two buildings and a manned guardhouse. Six soldiers with rifles on shoulders stand in open area in front of train.
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- Title: Evacuees boarding train to Topaz, 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: 10 in, W: 14.5 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, 2007.62.116)
- 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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