Illustration of the flood from the Grapes of Wrath

"They splashed along, carrying the children in their arms." Photograph of the lithograph of the flood from the Grapes of Wrath from The Grapes of Wrath 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.