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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

A transcribed excerpt from an interview with Dorothea Lange.

A transcribed excerpt from an interview with Dorothea Lange.

Citation Information: Excerpt from “Oral history interview with Dorothea Lange, 1964 May 22,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/6ad6fdfd0863e5721340cbb3c4df9c3e.

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Courtesy of the Archives of American Art via the Smithsonian Institution.

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Item 14 of 14 in the Primary Source Set The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

A photograph by Dorothea Lange of a squatter camp in California, 1936.

A photograph by Dorothea Lange of children in a Kern County, California camp near Weedpatch, 1940.

An October 24, 1936 report from Arvin Camp, also known as Weedpatch.

Photograph of Arvin Camp parents with children who are having their height and weight measured, 1936.

California’s Grapes of Wrath, a pamphlet in response to Steinbeck’s book published by the Associated Farmers of Fresno County, 1939.

A transcribed excerpt from an interview with Dorothea Lange.

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