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This colored slide shows a Mexican "Bracero" holding a head of lettuce in the fields near Blythe, California. The "bracero" was a farm laborer from Mexico contracted on a temporary basis during World War II, between the Mexican and the United States governments to assist with the labor shortage in the United States. After the war the "Bracero Program", as it was commonly referred to, continued among the two countries until formally ending in 1964.
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: 1962
Item Number: 222041
Call Number: ATSF Series 8, #116-15K
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 222041
Agriculture - Agricultural methods and practices - Harvesting
Agriculture - Crops - Vegetables - Lettuce
Agriculture - Labor - Migrant laborers
Collections - Photograph - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Date - 1960s - 1962
Military - Wars - World War II - Homefront
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Hispanics
Places - Other States - California
Thematic Time Period - Eisenhower Years, 1946 - 1961
Type of Material - Photographs - Format - Slides
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