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Mail-order clothing from Sears Roebuck, Central Utah Relocation Project, Topaz, Utah, 1942-1944
Miné Okubo1942-1944
Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, United States
A woman dressed in an oversized jacket and long dress, Mine Okubo stands barefoot, facing the viewer in her room. Paper wrapping from her Sears Roebuck summer catalog clothing order lies on the cot behind her. A pair of boots sits in the right foreground.
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- Title: Mail-order clothing from Sears Roebuck, 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: 9.75 in, W: 14.5 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, 2007.62.151)
- 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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