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Fort Sam Houston Internment Camp, Texas

Hoshida, George [ bio ]

Fort Sam Houston Internment Camp, Texas

drawing
H: 6 in, W: 9.5 in
ink
watercolor
paper
laminate

Fort Sam Houston, Tex., June 12, 1942

(97.106.1E)

Gift of June Hoshida Honma, Sandra Hoshida and Carole Hoshida Kanada

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Description

1 drawing on paper, laminated : ink, watercolor ; 9.5 x 6 in.

Ink drawing with watercolor in hues of blue, green, orange, and gray of a tent in front of a barbed wire fence and a guard tower. Tan tent is rectangular with high peaked roof. Trees on left behind fence ; tall green plants next to guard tower behind fence. A factory with billowing smokestacks stands in the distance beyond the fence. Blue skies with orange horizon and white clouds. Drawing 97.106.1F is on verso of same sheet.

Inscription
Written in blue ink, bottom : Fort Sam Houston Internment Camp, Texas Written in black ink, bottom right : 6-12-42

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