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[Mine at train station in Berne, Switzerland, 1939]
[Mine at train station in Berne, Switzerland, 1939]
[Mine at train station in Berne, Switzerland, 1939]

[Mine at train station in Berne, Switzerland, 1939]

Maker (1912 - 2001)
Date1942-1944
Mediumpaper, ink
DimensionsH: 9.75 in, W: 14.5 in
ClassificationsFine Arts
Credit LineGift of Mine Okubo Estate
Object number2007.62.7
Description1 drawing on paper : ink ; image 9.75 x 14.5 in., matted 16 x 20 in.;A woman with shoulder-length hair and tiny beret, Mine Okubo, looks at a woman reading a newspaper at a wharf while traveling in Europe when England and France declared war on September 3, 1939 during World War II. Wearing a tiny black beret, a European American woman with hair in a bun and bowed shoulders leans against a railing, back to viewer, as she reads a newspaper in foreground. Walking to the left, Mine wears a spotted coat with bag under her proper right arm; a man next to her looks toward the woman's newspaper as well. People stand and sit in midground and background reading newspapers.
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