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Outdoor scene with barracks and children playing, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942]
Outdoor scene with barracks and children playing, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942]
Outdoor scene with barracks and children playing, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942]

Outdoor scene with barracks and children playing, 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 number2007.62.84
DescriptionA woman with flipped forelock of hair, Mine Okubo, stands near a barracks in center field where children play at Tanforan Assembly Center, California during World War II. The head and shoulders of Mine in a cross-patterned shirt and a man in a hat are visible in foreground, bottom left. Three children play in area in front of barracks, where steps lead into the individual living quarters. A person sits on one stoop; potted plants sit on table between steps and a clotheline hangs in front. A nameplate hangs over the doorway at the end of the barracks, left. Another barracks is partially visible behind it.;1 drawing on paper : ink ; image 9.25 x 13 in., matted 16 x 20 in.
Barracks room
Ishigo, Estelle
1942-1945
Planting Vegetables
Henry Sugimoto
1944
Copyright JANM
Henry Sugimoto
1965

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