Grapes of Wrath

An online exhibit by English 690 (Spring 2017) at San Francisco State University

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This is an advertisement seeking to find any desperate farm workers or migrant families that need work.

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Photograph of Migrant Working viewing a billboard with a message intended to be inspirational.

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Created as a prop for the Grapes of Wrath movie. Unsure if it was used in the movie.

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This billboard advertising the cinematic version of Grapes of Wrath is ironically placed at a migrant labor camp. Families struggling to survive park in the shade of the ad: face-to-face with a humongous testament to their narrative becoming part of…

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Billboard in both Spanish and English offering work at a nearby ranch.

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Handbill of unknown (possibly dubious) origin beckoning laborers to venture to a farm in Tulare County.

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Handbill found in the scrapbook of Charles Todd.
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