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Braceros Playing Cards

Braceros Playing Cards

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Description
Photograph: Two braceros sit on a bed and play cards while third bracero writes a letter in a living quarter at a camp in the Western United States.
Location
Currently not on view
Object Name
negative
date photographed
1956
photographer
Nadel, Leonard
Place Made
United States: Western United States
ID Number
2004.0138.38.22
accession number
2004.0138
catalog number
2004.0138.38.22
subject
Mexicans
Immigration
Bracero
Migration
Migrant Workers
Bracero Program
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Work
Photography
Agriculture
Leonard Nadel
Data Source
National Museum of American History
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