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[Bachelor's quarters in the grandstand, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942]
[Bachelor's quarters in the grandstand, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942]
[Bachelor's quarters in the grandstand, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942]

[Bachelor's quarters in the grandstand, 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 number2007.62.64
Description1 drawing on paper : ink ; image 9.25 x 13 in., matted 16 x 20 in.;Woman with shoulder-length hair, Mine Okubo, stands at edge of bachelor "dorm" in the racetrack grandstand of the Tanforan Assembly Center, California during World War II. Dressed in plaid jacket, Mine stands in profile with rectangular object under her arm in foreground right at the foot of a bed where an unshaven, balding man plays cards, possibly solitaire. Row of beds with clothes hanging from wooden frames and ropes extends into background. Another man lies on a bed reading. Two parallel rows of beds are visible at top left.

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