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Hollywood: Technicolor Motion Picture, 1939. Vintage, oversize, double weight publicity photograph of the Joad family from the 1940 film, with the ironic Christmas message etched onto the negative along bottom "The Joad Family wish you a Merry Christmas and hope to see you soon." "Donn G Wescott Technicolor Motion Picture Corp" stamp and "E.S. Blake Dec 15 1939" stamp with the annotation "ESB" to right of stamp and "From Sallisaw, Okla. 13/11/39" at bottom in manuscript pencil, all on verso. Based on the 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by John Steinbeck. The now-famed story of a suffering sharecropper family forced to relocate, John Ford's film adaptation stays true to the tone of Steinbeck's original, which was published only three months before producer Darryl F. Zanuck acquired the rights. Though Steinbeck purportedly threatened to sue the studio using the money he made from the sale if they changed the story's intent to bring attention to the conditions of migrant…

The Grapes of Wrath, written by John Steinbeck, is a powerful novel depicting the struggles of the Joad family during the Great Depression as they journey from Oklahoma to California in search of a better life.