Cotton Pickers from the Grapes of Wrath

Workers picking cotton from The Grapes of Wrath, v.2,p.529, illustrated edition, by Thomas Hart Benton, a native of eastern Oklahoma, who was assigned to draw archetypal Oklahomans for 20th Century Fox as the studio believed that would make the casting more accurate. "And then they bent lower to their work, and their hands flew to the cotton." "Cotton pickers wanted-placards on the road, handbills out..." "Now the bag is heavy, boost it along, set your hips and tow it along, like a work horse."