Original Caption: Representative of a two-week pay check. After deductions for board, insurance, and advance for Pepsi-Cola, this bracero was left with $32.88 for two weeks period. (A, #27)
Original Caption: "Representative of a two-week pay check. After deductions for board, insurance, and advance for Pepsi-Cola, this bracero was left with $32.88 for two weeks period."
As part of the process of becoming a bracero identification photographs had to be taken from the men. This was part of the process at the Hidalgo Processing Center, Texas.
An agent from the Texas growers association examines the muscles of braceros in the Hidalgo Processing Center, Texas and selects some for distribution among his association members in Hidalgo. They preferred braceros who have already worked as…