The Joads arrive in California, pt.1

Illustration from The Grapes of Wrath (v.1,end page) illustrated edition, the Joads stop to look over the scene after crossing into California. Thomas Hart Benton, a native of eastern Oklahoma, was assigned to draw archetypal Oklahomans for 20th Century Fox as the studio believed that would make the casting more accurate. see also no. 3-342. "They drove through Tehachapi in the morning glow, and the sun came up behind them, and then, suddenly they saw the great valley below them."