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Description
Signed in medium, bottom left corner: H. Sugimoto, Fresno Assembly Camp, 1942. Written on back: Fresno Assembly Camp/16" x 13" Still life of dish with three peaches on wooden folding table or stool. Dish sits on top of "Fresno Grapevine" newspaper; pink coupon book in foreground; white ID tag for Sugimoto, "Sugimoto, S., No. 24907, Fresno Assembly Center," next to dish on right. Stretched and framed. An apparently simple still life tells a complex story. An innocuous plate of peaches sits beside several other objects: a copy of the Fresno Grapevine (a newspaper produced by Japanese Americans in the camp); the government-issued tag that identified the Sugimotos by their assigned number, 24907; and a ration booklet that could be used to purchase items at the camp cooperative.
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