Grapes of Wrath

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

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Reflects farm workers' struggle to unionize. Parody of "Roll out the Barrel."

ROLL OUT THE PICKETS

Roll out the pickets
We'll have a barrel of fun
Roll out the pickets
Keep up the fight till we've won.
Associated Farmers
Will very soon…

Song reflecting Bryant's disappointment in his circumstances while crossing the desert and his homesickness.

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Death marker for Fairchild Barnum Drew.

Walter Harp, square dance calling; Charles Cook, fiddle; Charles Powell, guitar; Bennie Lindsay, guitar; and Junior Lindsay, harmonica.

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"Sunny California" written by Mary Sullivan, a farmer from Texas, explores the hardships she endured during her long journey west.

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Variants of this song have been sung for seventy years
on westering high roads in America. Since 1933 it has
became the song of the migrant families who were tractered out of Texas, dusted out of Oklahoma and flooded out of Arkansas.

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- Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve.
- Date from negatives in same range.
- Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947.
- This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes…

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New correct map of the flat surface, stationary earth. When reading map lay it flat on table.

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Better picture of the ornate box turtle.
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