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[Relocation notification, 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 number2007.62.112
Description1 drawing on paper : ink ; image 9.25 x 13 in., matted 16 x 20 in.;A woman with flipped forelock of hair, Mine Okubo, receives notice of "relocation" out of Tanforan from man in hat at Tanforan Assembly Center, California during World War II. Dressed in cross-patterned shirt and dark pants, Mine stands with back to viewer as she holds up notice, "Barrack 16 to leave on Sept. 26," from a tall man in hat standing in doorway holding a sheaf of papers. Brush in water sits on table beside a book behind a wooden wall at left. Basin sits below window at right.
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