[Outdoor scene with evacuees, barracks and hills, 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 number2007.62.83

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, stands in middle of camp where the "Enjoy Acme Beer, South San Francisco, The Industrial City" sign stood out like a beacon on a hill at Tanforan Assembly Center, California during World War II. The head and shoulders of Mine in a pinafore over a cross-patterned shirt and a man in a hat with his back to viewer are visible in foreground, bottom right corner. People walk, stand and talk in front of partially visible barracks, clotheslines and a garden at left. Three barracks and a clothesline stand at midground where the Acme sign and hill rise above in background.