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Community toilets, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942
Miné Okubo1942-1944
Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, United States
A woman with filpped forelock of hair, Mine Okubo, walks through the women's community toilet at Tanforan Assembly Center, California during World War II. Dressed in cross-patterned top and jeans, Mine is visible full-length as she walks at end of stalls holding a cloth in hand at far right. Three women sit in partitioned stalls that lack doors. Seeking privacy, one woman sits behind a patched curtain, another covers her face near a pot that appears to be an incense burner, and third woman sits behind boards nailed together.
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- Title: Community toilets, 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, 2007.62.75)
- 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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