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[Building furniture and repairing barracks, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942]
[Building furniture and repairing barracks, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942]
[Building furniture and repairing barracks, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942]

[Building furniture and repairing barracks, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 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 number2007.62.52
Description1 drawing on paper : ink ; image 9.25 x 13 in., matted 16 x 20 in.;A woman with flipped forelock of hair, Mine Okubo, fixes up living quarters, a former horse stall, with her brother, Toku, at Tanforan Assembly Center, California during World War II. Dressed in a cross-patterned top and jeans, Mine leans proper left knee on plank as she saws it over a crate at left. Toku sits with back to viewer as he hammers a nail into wall, background center. Pieces of lumber litter the floor alongside benches topped with loose nails in foreground right. Empty shelf below window that flanks open doorway, background, right.

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