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Inside the mess hall at Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942
Miné Okubo1942-1944
Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Women, children and men hold out plates to receive food as they stand in crowded mess hall lines at Tanforan Assembly Center, California during World War II. Sweating cooks dole out the potatoes with their bare hands at midground as the line passes in front of table in foreground toward the right. Another line is visible in background. Mine Okubo is partially visible at end of front line, far left.
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- Title: Inside the mess hall at 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
- Credit Line: Japanese American National Museum (Gift of Mine Okubo Estate, 2007.62.40)
- 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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