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[Laundry facilities, 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 number2007.62.70
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, holds a washboard as she stands with three other people looking for an empty washtub in the busy laundry building at Tanforan Assembly Center, California during World War II. Visible from the hip up, Mine stands in profile in foreground left with a washboard under her proper right arm and laundry under her left. People wash their laundry at three rows of washtubs; many wear aprons. One couple folds a sheet next to a child standing in a tub in center row.
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