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[Line-drying clothing outdoors, 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 number2007.62.71
DescriptionA woman with flipped forelock of hair, Mine Okubo, hangs laundry on outdoor clothesline at Tanforan Assembly Center, California during World War II. Dressed in cross-patterned shirt and jeans, Mine bends down to grab laundry in a tub below an empty clothesline that extends horizontally in foreground. A man in overalls and hat holds clothespin in his mouth as he hangs laundry from one of the many lines hanging diagonally at midground. Another man rests against pole of clothesline at right. A woman hangs laundry in distance, top right.;1 drawing on paper : ink ; image 9.25 x 13 in., matted 16 x 20 in.
Fukuhara, Henry
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