Western Union money order by Liborio Santiago Perez. First document dated 22 Jan 1962. Second document dated 10 Feb 1962.
Western Union money order for Liborio Santiago Perez. First document dated 9 Mar 1962. Second document dated 18 Jun 1962.
Western Union money order for Liborio Santiago Perez. Document dated 9 Jul 1962.
Western Union money order by Liborio Santiago Perez
Western Union money order by Liborio Santiago Perez. First document dated 11 Jun 1962. Second document dated 11 Aug 1962.
Western Union receipt for money sent to Mexico in 1945
This receipt shows money Salvador Velasco Patino sends to relative in Guadalajara, Mexico in 1945.
Western union receipt of money sent by Nepomuceno Gonzalez to Rosario De Velasco in 1959 for $56.
Western Union receipts received in 1956 and 1957(9?)
Western Union receipts sending money to Mexico. The top image displays a receipt from Salvador Velasco Patino to Rosario De Velaso in Atlas, Guadalajara in 1956. The bottom image displays a receipt from Nepomuceno Gonzalez to Rosario De Velasco in Guadalajara, Mexico dated 1957(9?).
Western Union receipts in 1958 and 1959. The top image is of a receipt from Nepomuceno Gonzalez to Esperanza Velasco in 1958 for $42. The bottom image is of a receipt from Nepomuceno Gonzalez to Rosario De Velasco in 1959 for $42.
Two similar photos from a photo album of Consuelo Lerma's sewing class in HELP (Home Education Livelihood Program).
Women prepare food and drink for braceros as they wait to be processed through the Monterrey Processing Center, Mexico.
Local vendors which were mostly women sold food and beverages as well as hats while the braceros had to wait either to enter the Monterrey Processing Center or to be processed inside.
The Leonard Nadel Collection, NMAH. Catalogue #: 2004.0138.04.16; Negative #: NAD-2004.0138.04.16; Roll #: 4
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Women talk and work at home with children in a braceros family home in San Mateo, Mexico.
The Leonard Nadel Collection, NMAH. Catalogue #: 2004.0138.08.10; Negative #: NAD-2004.0138.08.10; Roll #: 8
Women wash clothes and care for a child in the courtyard of a bracero family home in San Mateo, Mexico.
Original Caption: " In the village of San Mateo, about 20 miles south of Mexico City, approximately 150 braceros leave their homes per hear to work in the United States. The population of the village is about 2500. When work is available, a Mexican farmer may earn 10 pesos a day, on which he must support a family of 9 people."
The Leonard Nadel Collection, NMAH. Catalogue #: 2004.0138.13.03; Negative #: NAD-2004.0138.13.03; Roll #: 13
Print NAD-2004.0138.57.05. See Nadel Footnotes, 4.
Women wash clothes and care for children in the courtyard of a bracero family home in San Mateo, Mexico.
The Leonard Nadel Collection, NMAH. Catalogue #: 2004.0138.13.04; Negative #: NAD-2004.0138.13.04; Roll #: 13
The Leonard Nadel Collection, NMAH. Catalogue #: 2004.0138.13.05; Negative #: NAD-2004.0138.13.05; Roll #: 13
Women work and care for children in a braceros family home in San Mateo, Mexico.
The Leonard Nadel Collection, NMAH. Catalogue #: 2004.0138.08.11; Negative #: NAD-2004.0138.08.11; Roll #: 8
Women framed by an arch work and care for children in their San Mateo, Mexico, bracero family home.When the cost of living outstripped wages in villages like San Mateo Atenco, many men enrolled as braceros. Families stayed behind. Original Caption: This is one of the two rooms for a family of nine people living in San Mateo - - about 20 miles south of Mexico City. Other room is a kitchen, work room, and storeroom. When work is available in the village, a Mexican laborer may earn about 10 pesos per day Because of this, the wageearner of the family here wants to go to the U.S. as a farm laborer where he may earn much more anywhere from 4 weeks up to 6 months.
The Leonard Nadel Collection, NMAH. Catalogue #: 2004.0138.08.12; Negative #: NAD-2004.0138.08.12; Roll #: 8
Print NAD-2004.0138.57.02. See Nadel Captions B, #35. See also Nadel Footnotes, 4.
Institute of Oral History, University of Texas at El Paso
Bracero Work Certificate Letter from the Arroyo Grande Farm Labor Association dated July 1956.
Continuation of Standard Work Contract for Jose Guadalupe Blanco Ortega, from 1957 to 1958 for northern California. Signed in El Centro, California.
Work contract written in Spanish and issued by the Secretary of Labor for the United States. it was issued to J.C. Quezada Morales on November 28, 1952. It is signed by the Secretary of Labor and includes a fingerprint from J.C. Quezada Morales.
Back page of Standard Work Contract with terms for Jose Guadalupe Blanco Ortega, 1957.
Workers using horses to move a structure.
Two men using a tractor to move hay bales.
Payment scale based on hours and crop for Yolo Growers Inc. typed in English and Spanish.
Young men prepare sandwiches and pan dulce for braceros at the Monterrey Processing Center, Mexico.
The Leonard Nadel Collection, NMAH. Catalogue #: 2004.0138.03.32; Negative #: NAD-2004.0138.03.32; Roll #: 3