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[Evacuees struggling against dust and wind, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942]
[Evacuees struggling against dust and wind, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942]
[Evacuees struggling against dust and wind, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942]

[Evacuees struggling against dust and wind, 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 number2007.62.57
Description1 drawing on paper : ink ; image 9.25 x 13 in., matted 16 x 20 in.;A woman with filpped forelock of hair, Mine Okubo, covers her mouth and hair as she walks with a small group of people through the windy and dusty Tanforan Assembly Center, California during World War II. Dressed in a speckled jacket and black pants, Mine covers her mouth with a handkerchief and her hair with her proper right hand as she walks left, bending in the wind. A mustached man in a belted jacket holds onto his hat as he walks at right. The head and shoulders of a tired woman and child and a woman covering her nose and mouth are visible in foreground left. Smaller figures of a man walking with folded arms, a man chasing his hat, and a woman covering her mouth in background right. A fence spans the horizon.

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