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[Inspection of incoming and outgoing evacuees, 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 number2007.62.58
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, observes a car being searched by a soldier before it leaves Tanforan Assembly Center, California during World War II. Visible from the shoulders up in bottom right corner, Mine wears a cross-patterned jacket as she stands behind a gate watching a soldier open the trunk of a stopped vehicle. Another soldier stands in the guardhouse watching the procedure, while a third soldier in overseas cap stands in profile near Mine, foreground left. The car faces right as it waits to exit onto the road running diagonally at top right. A man and a woman holding a child stand near guardhouse. A fence encloses the space.
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