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Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
DOROTHEA LANGE (1895 - 1965)
Tom Collins and the Walter Packard Family * The Grapes of Wrath billboard. Circa 1935 & 1939; printed circa 2000. Together, 2 silver prints, the images measuring 191x241 mm; 7½x9½ inches, the sheets slightly larger, each with a Dorothea Lange Collection, Oakland Museum of California stamp on verso.
Provenance John and Lee Dixon; to the Present Owner
Tom Collins managed the Resettlement Administration migrant labor camp in Arvin, CA. Both Lange and John Steinbeck met Tom Collins at the camp on different occasions. Collins is believed to be the inspiration for Steinbeck's camp manager Jim Rawley in The Grapes of Wrath.
