2008.32.3.11

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(carrying handmade mattresses to barracks, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California)
(carrying handmade mattresses to barracks, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California)
1942
4.75 in HIGH x 6.375 in WIDE
(12.06 cm HIGH x 16.19 cm WIDE)
Gift of the Estate of the artist
2008.32.3.11

signed "Mine" in image, BC
Tick bags were filled with straw. The few cotton mattress pads were for the sick and the old. - Text accompanying image in old non-archival housing (see object file)
TOM, "Mine Okubo: An American Experience," 1972.





Clich_s-verre on paper. The image shows a man and a woman with large sacks of straw in the foreground at center and seven men moving sacks in the background at upper left.

Caption with image, "Tick bags were filled with straw. The few cotton mattress pads were for the sick and the old." "When we had finished filling the bags, the openings were sewed roughly together and we carried the bags away. It was very windy and dusty on the way back and we had some difficulty managing the awkward load."(p. 45, Citizen 13660)

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