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card, greeting
Maker
Miné Okubo
(1912 - 2001)
Date1943
Mediumink, paper
DimensionsH: 14 in, W: 8.5 in
ClassificationsArchives
Credit LineGift of Chisato Okubo
Object number2003.159.73B
Description1 Easter card sent to Benji Okubo from his sister, Mine. This letter was sent when Mine was incarcerated in the camp in Topaz and Benji was in the camp in Heart Mountain. The card is essentially an ink drawing on paper depicting presumably Mine as the largest central figure surrounded by small sketches of other characters. The Mine Okubo figure is hunched over, walking in a snowstorm with a handkerchief pressed against her face. Notably, the sentry tower looms in the background as well as rows of barracks. The smaller sketches are of camp life, including people dining in the mess hall, a fence of barbed wire, a man trudging with buckets of coal, a jack rabbit and a man racing to an outhouse. The style of the card is done quickly in a cartoonish manner and shows Mine's humor mixed in with pathos. Card was in envelope (2003.159.73A).
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