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Line-drying clothing outdoors, 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, hangs laundry on outdoor clothesline at Tanforan Assembly Center, California during World War II. Dressed in cross-patterned shirt and jeans, Mine bends down to grab laundry in a tub below an empty clothesline that extends horizontally in foreground. A man in overalls and hat holds clothespin in his mouth as he hangs laundry from one of the many lines hanging diagonally at midground. Another man rests against pole of clothesline at right. A woman hangs laundry in distance, top right.
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- Title: Line-drying clothing outdoors, 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, 2007.62.71)
- 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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