Women wash clothes and care for a child in the courtyard of a bracero family home in San Mateo, Mexico.

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Title

Women wash clothes and care for a child in the courtyard of a bracero family home in San Mateo, Mexico.

Description

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."

Creator

Leonard Nadel

Date

1956-00-00

Source

The Leonard Nadel Collection, NMAH. Catalogue #: 2004.0138.13.03; Negative #: NAD-2004.0138.13.03; Roll #: 13

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

Print NAD-2004.0138.57.05. See Nadel Footnotes, 4.

Spatial Coverage

San Mateo, Mexico

Rights Holder

National Museum of American History

Citation

Leonard Nadel, “Women wash clothes and care for a child in the courtyard of a bracero family home in San Mateo, Mexico.,” Bracero History Archive, accessed November 25, 2024, https://braceroarchive.org/items/show/1631.