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Title
Mexican migrant workers travel by train to Los Angeles (Calif.)
Date Created and/or Issued
1942
Publication Information
Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information
US
Description
Mexican migrant workers travel by train to Los Angeles as participants in the Bracero Program, which was instituted by the American and Mexican goverments to ease agricultural labor shortages in the United States during World War Two.
Type
Image
Identifier
uclamss_1387_b60_28737-1
ark:/13030/hb2m3nb10t
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Lifestyle
Migrant agricultural laborers
Mexicans--United States
International
Foreign workers, Mexican--California--Los Angeles Region
Source
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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