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[To Rohwer mural]
Maker
Muramoto, Walter
Date1944
DimensionsH: 2.5 in, W: 3.625 in
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LineGift of the Walter Muramoto Family
Object number97.292.17E
DescriptionMural titled, "To Rohwer," painted by high school student, Nobie Tanimoto, is propped on sawhorses against wall of wooden building at Rohwer concentration camp, Rohwer, Arkansas, 1944-1945. Mural depicts the train ride to Rohwer camp, featuring a freight train in foreground, passing three landscapes of farm, people picking cotton and mangroves in swamp with lightening storm; sunset over trees segues into an image of the Rohwer mascot, Lil' Daniel, above rows of barracks surrounded by barbed wire and a watchtower. Signed at lower right: Nobie F. Tanimoto 1944. Young man in dark shirt and trousers stands by panel at L. Image has irregular scalloped border. Appears to be a different version from mural in JANM collection (88.25.125F).;1 photographic print : b&w
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