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[December 7 mural]
[December 7 mural]
[December 7 mural]

[December 7 mural]

Date1944-1945
DimensionsH: 2.5 in, W: 3.625 in
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LineGift of the Walter Muramoto Family
Object number97.292.17A
DescriptionMural titled, "December 7," painted by high school student, Masao Kinoshita, is propped on sawhorses against wall of wooden building at Rohwer concentration camp, Rohwer, Arkansas, 1944-1945. Mural depicts montage of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor: Hawaii landscape, Los Angeles Times newspaper, battleship, explosions, lifeboat, Japanese airplanes. It is signed at lower right, "Masao Kinoshita, [illegible] 1944." Image has irregular scalloped border. Appears to be a different version from mural in JANM collection (88.25.125I).;1 photographic print : b&w

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