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Waiting in line to receive vaccinations, 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 in long winding line waiting to get typhoid and small pox vaccinations in the first month at Tanforan Assembly Center, California during World War II. Dressed in cross patterned jacket, Mine looks to right as she stands with back to viewer behind a woman wearing eyeglasses at bottom left corner. People stand in lines and check in at tables in midground. Barracks and utility poles in background.
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- Title: Waiting in line to receive vaccinations, 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: 9.5 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, 2007.62.55)
- 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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