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Laundry facilities, 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, holds a washboard as she stands with three other people looking for an empty washtub in the busy laundry building at Tanforan Assembly Center, California during World War II. Visible from the hip up, Mine stands in profile in foreground left with a washboard under her proper right arm and laundry under her left. People wash their laundry at three rows of washtubs; many wear aprons. One couple folds a sheet next to a child standing in a tub in center row.
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- Title: Laundry facilities, 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, mat board
- Credit Line: Japanese American National Museum (Gift of Mine Okubo Estate, 2007.62.70)
- 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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