2008.32.3.8

(lining up for typhid and smallpox shots, Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California)
1942
4.875 in HIGH x 6.5 in WIDE
(12.38 cm HIGH x 16.51 cm WIDE)
Gift of the Estate of the artist
2008.32.3.8

signed "Mine" in image, BR
Young and old were lined up and given typhoid and small pox shots at a mass-production rate. - Text accompanying image in old non-archival housing (see object file)
TOM, "Mine Okubo: An American Experience," 1972.OMCA, Gallery of California Art, Open Space 1, "Min_ Okubo: Citizen 13660," May 1 - Aug. 1, 2010.

Clich_s-verre on paper. The image contains lines of men and women pictured in the foreground and extending toward a group of buildings in the distance across the upper margin. The lines appear to lead into one of the buildings at upper left.

Caption with image, "Young and old were lined up and given typhoid and small pox shots at a mass-production rate." "During the first month, typhoid and smallpox shots were given a t a wholesale rate. Everyone had to have these vaccinations, while children had others besides. For nights we heard groans in the stable. Almost everyone was sick from the typhoid shots. The baby three stalls from us cried all the time. My brother, having started his inoculations before coming to camp, took his third and final shot. He complained that the final shot was meant for a horse." (p. 54, Citizen 13660)

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