A bracero picks up a load of cotton near McAllen, Texas.
Title
A bracero picks up a load of cotton near McAllen, Texas.
Description
Original Caption: Straining under back-breaking weight of cotton, the bracero falters as he waits to get checked off by the foreman. He then unloads the cotton into a nearby trailer. For this he gets 50c an hour. Cotton harvesting in McAllen, Texas area -- the bracero faulter s under the hearvy load of cotton as the bag gets weighed and checked off by the foreman. The bracero then has to unload the cotton into a nearby trailer. His wage is $.50 per hour. Weighing in cotton, a bracero stumbles under its crushing bulk. Pay for a job like this runs about 50c an hour. (Jubilee: A Magazine for the Church and Her People, April 1957, p. 41.)
Creator
Leonard Nadel
Date
1956-00-00
Source
The Leonard Nadel Collection, NMAH. Catalogue #: 2004.0138.18.03; Negative #: NAD-2004.0138.18.03; Roll #: 18
Publisher
National Museum of American History
Contributor
National Museum of American History, Division of Work and Industry
Rights
Restricted: no; Contact: NMAH Rights & Reproductions by email before distribution - rightsreproductions@si.edu
Relation
See Nadel Footnotes, 9. Nadel Captions A, #13/ B, #28.
Spatial Coverage
Near McAllen, Texas
Rights Holder
National Museum of American History
Citation
Leonard Nadel, “A bracero picks up a load of cotton near McAllen, Texas.,” Bracero History Archive, accessed May 3, 2024, https://braceroarchive.org/items/show/1789.