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Bus ride to Central Utah Relocation Project, Topaz, Utah, 1942

Miné Okubo1942-1944

Japanese American National Museum

Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, United States

A woman with flipped forelock of hair, Mine Okubo, looks out the window of a bus at Central Utah Relocation Center, also known as Topaz, arriving from Tanforan Assembly Center, California during World War II. Cutaway view of bus interior; the diagonal curve of the bus separates Mine, who sits in front of a boy and man and an older couple from the scene of piles of dirt patrolled by a soldier with a rifle at midground and cars driving down roads to rows of barracks in the background. There is a sentry at a guardhouse near entrance at top left corner. Wind blows at midground.

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  • Title: Bus ride to Central Utah Relocation Project, Topaz, Utah, 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, 2007.62.122)
  • 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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