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[Community toilets, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942]
Maker
Miné Okubo
(1912 - 2001)
Date1942-1944
Mediumpaper, ink, mat board
DimensionsH: 9.25 in, W: 13 in
ClassificationsFine Arts
Credit LineGift of Mine Okubo Estate
Object number2007.62.75
Description1 drawing on paper : ink ; image 9.25 x 13 in., matted 16 x 20 in.;A woman with filpped forelock of hair, Mine Okubo, walks through the women's community toilet at Tanforan Assembly Center, California during World War II. Dressed in cross-patterned top and jeans, Mine is visible full-length as she walks at end of stalls holding a cloth in hand at far right. Three women sit in partitioned stalls that lack doors. Seeking privacy, one woman sits behind a patched curtain, another covers her face near a pot that appears to be an incense burner, and third woman sits behind boards nailed together.
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