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Mexican workers recruited and brought to the Arkansas Valley, Colorado, Nebraska and Minnesota

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Call Number	AUR-2172
Title	Mexican workers recruited and brought to the Arkansas Valley, Colorado, Nebraska and Minnesota
Title-Alternative	Latinos/Hispanics in Colorado Collection; image no. LC-USW33- 031867-C.
Summary	An unidentified Mexican sugar beet worker, recruited by the Farm Security Administration to work in Colorado, Nebraska and Minnesota, sits in a railroad car and smokes a cigarette. He wears a leather jacket and a straw hat and is partially covered with a blanket. He has a short, trimmed beard and mustache.
Date	[1943 May]
Notes	Description based on content viewed.; No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs( http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html); Scanned image from U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information.; Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, [reproduction number, LC-USW33- 031867-C].; Title from website reads: "Mexican workers recruited and brought to the Arkansas Valley, Colorado, Nebraska and Minnesota by the FSA (Farm Security Administration), to harvest and process sugar beets under contract with the Inter-mountain Agricultural Improvement Association."; Digitization sponsored by the Library Services and Technology Act and the Center for Colorado & the West at Auraria Library.
Is Part Of	Latinos/Hispanics in Colorado Collection.
Subject	Mexicans--1940-1950. Agricultural laborers--Mexican. Agricultural laborers, Foreign--Pictorial works. Mexicans--Pictorial works.
Source	Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, [reproduction number, LC-USW33- 031867-C].
Rights	Restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
Reproduction Available for Purchase	No
Type of Material	Digital images.; Digital images.; Image
Contributors	Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division.
Format-Medium	Photograph
Identifier	AUR-2172; (OCoLC)664565452
Filename	00152172.TIF
CONTENTdm number	692

Mexican workers recruited and brought to the Arkansas Valley, Colorado, Nebraska and Minnesota

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