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Wage Rate Sheet for Beets divided by geographic region (district) in which work is done. Set by the US Department of Labor.

Amendments to Standard Work Contract by U.S. Government Printing Office.

Contract with Pay Wages Described per Task

Work Contract with Valley Farm Housing extended two times but terminated in September 1957. Rodolfo Cruz Figueroa

Bracero Work Contract with Imperial Valley Farmers Association October 1956 to February 1957.

Bracero Work Contract with Imperial Valley Farm Association from September to October 1956

Bracero Work Contract signed by Rodolfo Cruz Figueroa on June 5, 1946 with a stamp on it saying "Irapuato, Gto."

Bracero individual work contract (top half of front side) of Rodolfo Cruz Figueroa's June 1946 Contract.

Provisions of Work Contract for Rodolfo Cruz Figueroa (Bottom Half) of front side of 1946 contract.

Rodolfo Cruz Figueroa's Bracero Work Contract in Hidalgo, Texas in July 1960.

Rodolfo Cruz Figueroa's backside of contract that has a provision explaining the termination or extension of the contract (1961).

Bracero Work Contract for work in Big Spring, Texas. Signed in El Paso on July 21, 1961.

Bracero Work Contract in Wyoming for Sugar Beet coop, signed May 20, 1964.

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I would like to contribute a picture of my father who was a Bracero in 1944. He recently passed away and his stories were many.

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: David Alfaro Sandoval was born on April 18, 1930, in Romito, Guanajuato, México; his parents worked in agriculture, and he had two sisters; he was formally educated through the sixth grade; when his father died,…

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…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Sebastián Saucedo was born in Santa Bárbara, Chihuahua, México, on May 25, 1922; he is the third of six children; as a child, he helped his father work in the fields; consequently, he was never formally…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: José Guadalupe Corral was born on September 25, 1943, in Delicias, Chihuahua, México; he was the youngest of five children, and his mother died when he was a baby; when he was three years old, his family moved…
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