Grapes of Wrath

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

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DLabandoned farm family.jpg
Example of self-resettlement in California. Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio. Forced by the drought of 1936 to abandon their farm, they set out with their children to drive to California. Picking cotton in Arizona for a day or…

billboard family to Cal.jpg
Family packed in a car, moving to California for a better, more prosperous life.

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A photo of a grandmother and her grandson sitting on a bed.

Clothes line and cat.jpg
Clothes line and cat of family camped by the roadside near Spiro. Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, June 1939
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