Grapes of Wrath

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

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Collection: Musical Instruments of the Dust bowl

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Uncle Alex Dunford playing fiddle

uncle alex dunford with fiddle.jpg

1 photographic print

Tags: 1937, fiddle, Galax, Kenney, music, musical instrument, Uncle Alex Dunford, United States, Virginia

Homemade musical instruments of the 1930's

homemade musical instruments of the 1930s.jpg

Tags: 1934, depression, Homemade drums, Kenney, music, musical instruments, washboard

Folk Instruments of the 1930's

horns from the 1930s.jpg

Tags: 1934, great depression, Homemade horns, Kenney, musical instruments

Wade Ward of Bog Trotters band with banjo

wade ward with banjo.jpg

1 photographic print

Tags: 1937, banjo, Galax, Kenney, Musicians, Virginia

Fiddling Bill Hensley at the Mountain Music festival

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Tags: 1938, Asheville Music festival, Bill Hensley, fiddle, Kenney, music, Performances

King family playing music

king family playing music 1940.jpg

photograph : photographic print

Tags: 1940, American Folk life center, banjo, fiddle, guitar, Kenney, King Family, music, voices of the dust bowl

Will Neal perfecting the fiddle

Willie Neal playing fiddle solo.png

Tags: 1940, American Folk life center, Arvin Camp, California, Dust Bowl, Kenney, migrant workers, music, Musician, Will Neal

Wes Noel of Elk Springs, Missouri, playing a wood fiddle

Man playing fiddle.jpg

Tags: 1930, Kenney, Migrant, Missouri, Wood Fiddle

White migrant playing guitar in trailer home

migrant playing guitar in trailer home.jpg

1 negative : nitrate ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches or smaller.

Tags: guitar, Kenney, Migrant worker, music, Texas, Trailer home, Weslaco

Willie Neal being recorded by Robert Sonkin and Charles L. Todd at the Resettlement administration center. Bakersfield, California.

WIll Neal playing fiddle.jpg

Tags: Arvin Camp, California, fiddle, Kenney, music, Resettlement Administration, Will Neal

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