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Ma Joad- M useum E xhibit

Ma Joad- M useum E xhibit. By: April Escochea English III Mrs. Williams . Photo taken July 1940. Food. Migrant family encamped along the roadside eating a meal, near Henrietta, Oklahoma. Photo taken July 1940 I negative; nitrate; 35mm.

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Ma Joad- M useum E xhibit

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  1. Ma Joad- Museum Exhibit By: April Escochea English III Mrs. Williams

  2. Photo taken July 1940 Food Migrant family encamped along the roadside eating a meal, near Henrietta, Oklahoma. Photo taken July 1940 I negative; nitrate; 35mm They filled their plates, poured bacon gravy over the biscuits, and sugared their coffee. Ch.22 Pg. 198 Frying pan of migrant family along roadside near Henrietta, Oklahoma “…a little brush or wood to build the fires.” Ch. 17 Pg. 132 Ma broke twigs into the stove, and the coals from the dinner cooking started them blazing. Ch.28 Pg.292 Young boy gathers firewood for cooking near Henrietta, Oklahoma

  3. Photo taken July 1939 Food Migrants gather food and pans along the side of the road near Henrietta, Oklahoman Photo taken July 1939 "Noah, you get into them kegs an' bring out some nice pork. Salt won't be deep in it yet, but it'll be right nice eatin'.“ Ch.13 pg.94 She picked up the fork and combed the boiling grease and brought out a dark curl of crisp pork. And she set the pot of tumbling coffee on the back of the stove. Ch.8 pg.50 Women peels potatoes along roadside for her families dinner Near Henrietta, Oklahoma Photo taken July 1940 Photo taken July 1940

  4. Photo taken July 1940 Ma moved about in the kitchen, washing children's clothes in a bucket. Ch.10 Pg.60 Clothing Women wearing printed dress on roadside camp in Arkansas Ma slipped on her dress over the underclothes she wore to bed. Ch.25 pg.246 1 negative; nitrate 4x5 inches Women washes families clothes at Tulare migrant camp in Visalia, California. Women hangs up families clothes to dry A clothes line strung along the side bore pink cotton dresses and several pairs of overalls. Ch. 20 Pg. 163

  5. Picture taken September 1941 Clothing Mrs. Frank Pipkin age 46 Youngest grandmother in Shafter, California. "Le's go to the sewin' room," Annie suggested. "Got two machines. They's a-quiltin', an' they're making dresses. Ch.22 Pg. 216 The dress came down to her ankles, and her strong, broad, bare feet moved quickly and deftly over the floor. Ch. 8 Pg.49 Women instructed in sewing and rug making at California government camp. Photo taken November 1938

  6. Transportation Photo taken July 1939 Sometimes cars passed them, going west and away; and sometimes great trucks came up out of the west and rumbled eastward. Ch.18 Pg.153 Migrant family heading west in their truck from Muskogee, Oklahoma. The family piled on top of the truck again. Ch.13 Pg.88 Migrant family stopped along the highway with their truck. In route for California to find much needed work. Taken July 1939 WHEN THE TRUCK had gone, loaded with implements, with heavy tools, with beds and springs…. Ch.10 Pg.60 Two girls load up the family truck with table, which will be carried by the family to California.

  7. Transportation "I'll fix your car—me an' Tom will.“ Ch.13 Pg.93 Photo taken near Muskogee, Oklahoma in July 1939 Two men push the truck of a migrating family en route to California. Family removes groceries from improvised truck. Photo taken near Henrietta, Oklahoma. July 1939 She untied the three-gallon bucket from the back of the truck and approached the squealing children. Ch.13 Pg.90

  8. Recreation Family plays music together. Charles king, Billy king, Harlen king and Sydney Thompson and others. At the end of the unit there was a level place on which a croquet court had been set up These three in the evening, harmonica and fiddle and guitar. Ch.23 Pg.225 Tulare migrant camp in Visalia, California, plays a game of baseball. Photo taken in 1940

  9. Saturday night dance in Visalia, California. Recreation Photo taken in 1940 Will Neal plays fiddle. Will Neal has played the fiddle since he was 14 years old. He is the champion fiddler in the Arvin camp. Mother of migrating family sewing along the river side near Vale, Malheur county, Oregon. The fiddle is rare, hard to learn. No frets, no teacher. Ch.23 Pg.224 The square closes up and the dancing starts, feet on the bare ground, beating dull, strike with your heels. Ch.23 Pg.225 Photo taken in October 1939

  10. Photo taken April 1936 And next there was a huge tent, ragged, torn in strips and the tears mended with pieces of wire. The flaps were up, and inside four wide mattresses lay on the ground. Ch.20 Pg.163 Housing Abandoned Oklahoma farm in dust bowl area. They put up houses and barns, they turned the earth and planted crops. Ch19 pg. 157 Home of dust bowl refugees, imperial county, California. straight across country it went, cutting through a dozen farms and straight back. Ch.5 Pg.24 Interior of a migrating families make shift tent. The bed on floor is shared by two boys of the family. Photo taken march 1937

  11. Photo taken February 1939 Housing Outdoor stove, washstand and other household items out side the tent of a migrating family neat Harlingen, Texas. There were forty tents and shacks, and beside each habitation some kind of Automobile. Ch.20 pg.187 Auto and tent camp north of Cali patria, California. Approximately 80 families from dust bowl camped here. They paid 50 cents a week and the only available work was agricultural labor. Tom looked about at the grimy tents, the junk equipment, at the old cars, the lumpy mattresses out in the sun, at the blackened cans on fire-blackened holes where the people cooked. Ch.2o Pg.166 Photo taken march 1937

  12. Reference page http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html Grapes of wrath – by John Steinbeck

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