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Interior view of Mine and Toku's barrack, 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, stands at entrance of horse stable 50, her living quarters at Tanforan Assembly Center, California during World War II. Okubo stands in a coat at left framed in doorway with number "50" appearing below window. Swinging half-door divides two rooms; two folded spring cots lean against wall in the rear room at right. Exposed nails stick out from walls and ground covered with dust. Cobweb in rear room. Roof and fourth wall not drawn so that viewer can see interior.
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- Title: Interior view of Mine and Toku's barrack, 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, 2007.62.36)
- 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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