[Migration] Braceros eat lunch by a roadside

Creator

United Press International

Files

Identifier

ELIBR0154, F58

Creation Date

9-1-1963

Description

Press photograph, dated September 1, 1963, shows Mexican braceros during a meal break along a dirt or kaliche road. A mountain is visible in the distance. Some workers are in line waiting to be served from a large pot, while others are seated, eating.

A typed caption across the top reads,"World Horizons--Advance for AM's Sunday, Sept. 1, to go with dispatch by Richard P. O'Mara NXP 1384373(FILE)-9/1/63-Washington: The Senate recently voted a one-year extension of the Meixcan Farm Labor Act, a law which permits Mexican farm hands, or Braceros, to work in the U.S. House action is pending. In this photo placed in files 6/63, braceros eat lunch by a roadside. UPI Telephoto from file."

Physical Description

JPG, BW photo, 9"x7"

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Recommended Citation

United Press International Photo. Braceros eat lunch by a roadside, 1963-09-01. Migration, deportation photographs, 1948 - 1982. Miscellaneous Photographs Collection, ELIBR-0154. The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Special Collections and Archives, Edinburg Campus. UTRGV Digital Library https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/miscphotosedinburg/