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Mica back

Alien Laboreres Identification card - back for Tomas Zapata Castaneda, 1957.

Ismael Rodríguez Rico is the eldest of his three brothers; when he was six years old, his father died; afterward, he and his brothers worked wherever they could; eventually, Ismael enlisted in the bracero program; as a bracero, he labored in the…

Identification Card

Alien Laborer's Permit and Identification Card for Santos Nunez Sotelo, from 1954. Association identified as Lepanto Growers Association, Arkansas.

Tags: Identification, INS, MICA, nunez

Elsa Murillo Rodríguez

Elsa Murillo Rodríguez was born September 10, 1954, in Zacatecas, México; she had six siblings, four of whom are still living; her father was a bracero until the early 1960s; he labored in the fields of Texas picking apples and oranges; several of…

Report on birth

Hand written report on the birth of Salvador Velasco Patino including information on parents, physical characteristics, date of birth, legitimate, Catholic birth.

Tags: 1974, birth, jalisco, patino, report, velasco

Patricio Padilla Rubio

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Patricio Padilla Rubio was born March 17, 1926, in
Cuchillo Parado, Chihuahua, México; he is the youngest of six brothers; when he was a child, his father was the foreman for a ranch in Presidio, Texas, and he…

Mica Back

Alien Laborers Identification Card, or MICA, for Roberto Ordunio, 1956.

Tags: Identification, INS, MICA, Ordunio

Hispanic Business and Bracero Workers

Tags: braceros in san diego county, contract food provisions, Hispanic business

Mexican passport (pp. 10-11)

The Mexican Consulate in San Diego, California verified his birth date as September 17, 1929 on July 2,1960.

Tags: 1960, California, Duran, passport, Rivera, San Diego

Mexican passport (pp. 4-5)

Interior of Mexican Passport--these pages describe Mr. Pedro Rivera Duran's physical features, his birth date and place, occupation, and marital status.

Tags: 1960, California, Duran, passport, Rivera, San Diego

Birth certificate (back)

The text is from the back of Pedro Rivera Duran's birth certificate. It states that the Registrar verifies that everything on the birth certificate is true.

Tags: 1929, birth certificate, Duran, Guanajuato, Rivera

Birth Certificate

This birth certificate states that Pedro Rivera Duran was born September 17, 1929 in San Luis de la Paz, Guanajuato, Mexico.

Tags: 1929, birth certificate, Duran, Guanajuato, Rivera

Manuel Gámez Romero

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Manuel Gamez was born on September 15, 1932; he came from a large family and would often help his father work in the fields; in 1949, at the age of seventeen, he came to the United States illegally in order to…

Richard Hancock

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Richard Hancock was born in Alpine, Texas, on January 19, 1926, but he grew up in New Mexico; he worked with the Foot and Mouth Commission in Jalisco, México; later, he was employed by Doña Ana County as a labor…

John L. Augustine

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: John L. Agustine was born in El Paso, Texas, on August 29, 1914; his father worked in the mines of Lordsburg, New Mexico; he received a degree in agriculture from New Mexico State University and taught for a…

Death Certificate

According to the death certificate, Guadalupe Jose Santacruz died of natural causes on February 25, 1993.

Tags: 1993, certificate, coachella, death, santacruz

Birth certificate

Birth certificate of Melitona Santacruz obtained in April of 2000.

Tags: 2000, birth, certificate, santacruz, zacatecas

José Guadalupe Blanco Ortega

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: José Blanco was born on December 12, 1923, in Canelas, Durango, México; he was formally schooled through the second grade; when he was eight years old, he left his family to work with his father; they farmed…