Grapes of Wrath

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

Noonday dinner, family style, at restaurant in Muskogee, Oklahoma. The price of this dinner was fifteen cents. It included a medium-sized serving of meat, sliced tomatoes, beans, corn on the cob, potatoes, dumplings, corn bread and butter, tea and coffee, various jellies and preserves and onions. All you wanted of everything except the meat

Dublin Core

Title

Noonday dinner, family style, at restaurant in Muskogee, Oklahoma. The price of this dinner was fifteen cents. It included a medium-sized serving of meat, sliced tomatoes, beans, corn on the cob, potatoes, dumplings, corn bread and butter, tea and coffee, various jellies and preserves and onions. All you wanted of everything except the meat

Subject

- United States--Oklahoma--Muskogee County--Muskogee.
- Cities, towns--Oklahoma
- Oklahoma--Muskogee County--Muskogee

Creator

Russell Lee

Source

Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

Publisher

Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC 2054

Date

July 1939

Contributor

Library of Congress

Rights

No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs

Type

Photograph

Files

oklahoma meal.jpeg

Citation

Russell Lee, “Noonday dinner, family style, at restaurant in Muskogee, Oklahoma. The price of this dinner was fifteen cents. It included a medium-sized serving of meat, sliced tomatoes, beans, corn on the cob, potatoes, dumplings, corn bread and butter, tea and coffee, various jellies and preserves and onions. All you wanted of everything except the meat,” Grapes of Wrath, accessed May 18, 2024, https://grapesofwrath.sfsuenglishdh.net/items/show/97.