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[Cooking in barracks, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942]
[Cooking in barracks, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942]
[Cooking in barracks, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942]

[Cooking in barracks, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942]

Maker (1912 - 2001)
Date1942-1944
Mediumpaper, ink, mat board
DimensionsH: 10 in, W: 14.5 in
ClassificationsFine Arts
Credit LineGift of Mine Okubo Estate
Object number2007.62.68
Description1 drawing on paper : ink ; image 10 x 14.5 in., matted 16 x 20 in.;A woman with flipped forelock of hair, Mine Okubo, sits with her arms crossed as her food cooks over a hotplate while her neighbor adds another light to their overhead light at Tanforan Assembly Center, California during World War II. The image is bisected into two rooms by end of a wooden wall, Mine's on the left and the neighboring family of three on the right. Dressed in plaid shirt, Mine sits on a wooden stool next to a pot cooking on a hotplate plugged into her overhead light. A mustached man stands with lightbulbs in hand as the coffeepot percolates on a hotplate on table. Woman breastfeeds an infant in foreground, right.

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