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Title: Nisei Babies in Concentration Camp
Creator: Sugimoto, Henry
Date Created and/or Issued: ca. 1943
Publication Information: Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Contributing Institution: Japanese American National Museum
Collection: Sugimoto (Henry) Collection
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Signed, front, BLC: H. Sugimoto. Written on back: Nisei Babies in (babwired camp) [crossed out]/Concetration [sic] Camp/22 1/2" x 18"
Stretched and framed. Five faceless black haired babies in diapers on white sheet; one stands, holding up small American flag in right hand; one seated behind him salutes. A soldier in tan uniform and black MP arm band carries a rifle with bayonet in left foreground. A barbed-wire fence separates him from and surrounds the babies. A guard tower stands next to a bare tree in right background under a dark sky.
Type: image
Format: Painting oil on canvas Denson, Ark.
Form/Genre: painting
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf7199n8rf
92.97.130
Subject: Concentration camps
Infants
Soldiers
Barbed wire
Fences
Place: Denson, Ark.

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