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[Bus ride to Central Utah Relocation Project, Topaz, Utah, 1942]
[Bus ride to Central Utah Relocation Project, Topaz, Utah, 1942]
[Bus ride to Central Utah Relocation Project, Topaz, Utah, 1942]

[Bus ride to Central Utah Relocation Project, Topaz, Utah, 1942]

Maker (1912 - 2001)
Date1942-1944
Mediumpaper, ink, mat board
DimensionsH: 9.25 in, W: 13 in
ClassificationsFine Arts
Credit LineGift of Mine Okubo Estate
Object number2007.62.122
DescriptionA woman with flipped forelock of hair, Mine Okubo, looks out the window of a bus at Central Utah Relocation Center, also known as Topaz, arriving from Tanforan Assembly Center, California during World War II. Cutaway view of bus interior; the diagonal curve of the bus separates Mine, who sits in front of a boy and man and an older couple from the scene of piles of dirt patrolled by a soldier with a rifle at midground and cars driving down roads to rows of barracks in the background. There is a sentry at a guardhouse near entrance at top left corner. Wind blows at midground.;1 drawing on paper : ink ; image 9.25 x 13 in., matted 16 x 20 in.

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