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This colored slide shows a group of "Mexican "Braceros" picking heads of lettuce in the Salt River Valley near Phoenix, Arizona. A "bracero" was a farm laborer from Mexico who was contracted on a temporary basis during World War II, between the Mexican and the United States government to assist with the labor shortage in the U.S. After the war the "Bracero Program", as it was commonly referred to, continued among the two countries until it formally ended in 1964.
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Between 1950 and 1959
Item Number: 221464
Call Number: ATSF Series 8, #116-3K
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 221464
Agriculture - Agricultural methods and practices - Harvesting
Agriculture - Crops - Vegetables - Lettuce
Agriculture - Labor - Migrant laborers
Collections - Photograph - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Date - 1950s
Military - Wars - World War II - Homefront
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph - Slides
People - Hispanics
Places - Other States - Arizona
Thematic Time Period - Eisenhower Years, 1946 - 1961
Thematic Time Period - World War II, 1939 - 1945
Type of Material - Photographs - Format - Slides
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