First night at Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942 – (Mine Okubo) Previous Next


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Date: 1944

Museum: Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, United States)

Technique: Drawing

A woman, Mine Okubo, and her brother, Toku, sleep under clothing and blankets on adjacent beds in their new living quarters, a former horse stall, at Tanforan Assembly Center, California during World War II. Mine sleeps with covers up to her nose with extra clothing from her luggage spread over the blanket and sheet she had brought with her to keep warm in foreground; a suitcase sits on base of bed. Her head is at right edge near clock on crate that separates the siblings

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