[Vaccination administration, interior of medical barrack, 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 number2007.62.56

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 line waiting to get typhoid and small pox vaccinations inside barracks at Tanforan Assembly Center, California during World War II. Visible from the waist up, Mine stands with a man and a woman, bottom right foreground, facing away from viewer as their queue leads toward the center of the building where people receive their shots from doctors and nurses assisted by other medical staff. A child and woman stand in foreground left, waiting in adjacent line leading to a check-in table followed by a vaccination table along left edge. Two parents comfort children in background at right; two children stand with hands over their faces. A person talks to four people sitting at a table along back wall. There is an open door at top left.