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Mexican bracero and Mexican American agricultural laborers eating lunch in Ventura County, Calif., 1964

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Title: Mexican bracero and Mexican American agricultural laborers eating lunch in Ventura County, Calif., 1964
Date Created and/or Issued: September 13, 1964
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4882
Description: A DIFFERENCE IN APPETITES-Pedro Gonzales, 40, a Mexican bracero, lunches on tortilla and beans while fellow worker John Olvires, 15, a Mexican American, digs into his lunch box. Both are paid at same rate yet their financial needs to maintain respective standards of living are completely different.
Type: Image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: uclalat_1429_b536_225988
ark:/21198/zz0002sqkd
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Lifestyle
Eating & drinking
Agricultural laborers--California--Economic conditions
Agricultural laborers, Foreign--California, Southern
Mexican American agricultural laborers--California, Southern
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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