Braceros in Lettuce Field

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Description:

Photograph: A man on a truck uses a machine to assemble Cookie lettuce boxes in a field in the Salinas Valley, California, while braceros pick up the ready boxes to fill them with lettuce.

Date Photographed: 1956

Photographer: Nadel, Leonard

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: California, Salinas Valley

Subject: ImmigrationBraceroMexicansMigrationMigrant WorkersRelated Event: Bracero Program

Subject:

See more items in: Archives Center: Archives, Government, Politics, and Reform, Work, Photography, Agriculture, Leonard Nadel

Exhibition:

Exhibition Location:

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 2004.0138.20.41Accession Number: 2004.0138Catalog Number: 2004.0138.20.41

Object Name: negative

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-a61c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_1353692

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