The rains flood the boxcars illustration

"They splashed along, carrying the children in their arms." The rains flood the boxcars from The Grapes of Wrath, c. 1940, vol.2 p.532, illustrated 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 the people waded away, carrying their wet blankets in their arms. They splashed along, carrying children, carrying the very old, in their arms. And if a barn stood on high grown, it was filled with people, shivering and hopeless."