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Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Zenon Martínez Banda was born in Lagunillas, San Luis Potosí, México; his father worked on a milpa; as a boy, he helped his father work in the fields growing corn and green beans; he was never formally educated;…

Bracero Work Certificate Letter from the Arroyo Grande Farm Labor Association dated July 1956.

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.

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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…

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.

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…

Mexican issued voting ID for bracero, Guadalupe Becerra Topete in 1991.

Mexican voting ID issued for bracero, Guadalupe Becerra Topete in 1991.

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Vicente Delgado was born in a small town by the name of Cerro Gordo, between Teloloapan and Acatepec, Guerrero, México; he was raised on a ranch and had very humble beginnings; when he was eighteen, he came into…