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Waiting to use the washrooms, Central Utah Relocation Project, Topaz, Utah, 1942-1944
Miné Okubo1942-1944
Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, United States
A woman with an flipped forelock of hair, Mine Okubo, stands in the right foreground, with her back to the viewer, as a man in a bathrobe carrying a towel, cup and toothbrush, exits the washrooms. A woman with a towel over her hair, carries a wash bowl and waits next to Mine. A woman is in the backgound carries two buckets. Two men in the background wear tall getas to traverse the muddy ground. Four barracks are visible.
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- Title: Waiting to use the washrooms, 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, 2007.62.160)
- 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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