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[Working at the Topaz Times, Central Utah Relocation Project, Topaz, Utah, 1942]
[Working at the Topaz Times, Central Utah Relocation Project, Topaz, Utah, 1942]
[Working at the Topaz Times, Central Utah Relocation Project, Topaz, Utah, 1942]

[Working at the Topaz Times, Central Utah Relocation Project, Topaz, Utah, 1942]

Maker (1912 - 2001)
Date1942-1944
Mediumink, paper
DimensionsH: 9.75 in, W: 14.5 in
ClassificationsFine Arts
Credit LineGift of Mine Okubo Estate
Object number2007.62.134
DescriptionA woman seated at a table in the left foreground, Mine Okubo, eats a sandwich at the Topaz Times, where she works. Unwrapped in front of her, are five slices of bread, a jar of jelly and a knife. A woman in a head scarf and floral patterned shirt works at a table beside her. A man in a hunting cap sits behind them in the midground reading a paper with his feet propped on a table. In the background, four men and one woman assemble papers, rest, or finish lunch. Stacks of papers, pots, cups and a cardboard box sit on the work tables. A kettle warms atop a wood-burning stove, left midground.;1 drawing on paper : ink ; image 9.75 x 14.5 in.

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