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MN: Now, when you had to leave Otis Art Institute during the Great Depression to help your family out financially, were you resentful that you had to stop your art career?

HF: No.

MN: Do you think if you weren't the oldest son, you could have stayed in art school?

HF: Probably.

MN: When you quit Otis and you started to work, did you still paint and draw?

HF: Yes, I drew at home.

MN: When you were incarcerated at Manzanar, did you paint in Manzanar?

HF: A little bit.

MN: What did you use as your medium? Was it watercolor?

HF: Watercolor.

MN: How did you get your equipment, your material to paint?

HF: Good question. I don't remember.

MN: Did you bring it with you or did you order it through the Montgomery Ward catalog?

HF: I don't remember.

MN: After you -- well, at Manzanar, what sort of material were you painting? What was your subject?

HF: Just landscape.

MN: Did it include the barbed wires or not guard towers, no guard towers?

HF: No.

MN: Just the landscape.

HF: Yeah. Yes.

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