Grapes of Wrath

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

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Abandoned farm of the western Panhandle, Cimmaron [i.e. Cimarron] County, Oklahoma. In 1934 and again in 1936 drought conditions in the Great Plains became so severe that it was necessary for the federal government to take steps to rescue dying…

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Abandoned farm on the high plains, Texas County, Oklahoma. "The record of the Great Plains is to a great extent a record of settlement and abandonment." J. Russell Smith

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Two migrant children on small wagon.

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"This family of 7 were camped on a flat during the potato harvest, without tent, without water. Water from nearby service station at 5 cents per bucket."

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1 photographic print. | Migrant worker, veteran of World War I, reclining on ground, with a dog and a boy, near Winters, California.
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