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Victory gardens, Central Utah Relocation Project, Topaz, Utah, 1942-1944
Miné Okubo1942-1944
Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, United States
A woman wearing a cross-patterned shirt, Mine Okubo, stands in profile in the left foreground watching a man water a vegetable plot. The man is shirtless and has a knotted handkerchief covering the top of his head. He pours water on rows of seedlings using a stick with a perforated tin can nailed to the end. A pail of water sits on the ground by his feet. Cardboard, lumber scraps and cartons are recycled to build makeshift screens to protect the garden from dust storms. More garden plots are visible behind them, as well as barracks.
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- Title: Victory gardens, Central Utah Relocation Project, Topaz, Utah, 1942-1944
- 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: ink, paper
- Credit Line: Japanese American National Museum (Gift of Mine Okubo Estate, 2007.62.190)
- 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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