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Local vendors sold food and beverages as well as hats while the braceros had to wait either to enter the Monterrey Processing Center or to be processed inside.

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On farms and without transportation, braceros play a game with bottle caps and the side of a cardboard carton.

Original Caption: "Work is not always available, During such lulls the men must remain in camp and shift for themselves in trying to fill…

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Braceros speak their faith: a rose, a crucifix.

Original Caption: "Because of the isolation of many of the camps, some of these inherently devoted men improvise religious devotions with such items as shown---a candle in a cola bottle, a crucifix,…

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Braceros work in a lettuce field with short-handled hoes in the Salinas Valley, California. Many braceros worked six or more days per week stooped o ver, and some continued with loading and packing jobs after a full day in the field.

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Original Caption: "Thousands of braceros are brought in to perform stoop labor, a task no machine has been able to replace."

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Original Caption: "Bracing themselves against the daily, biting sand storms a long line of braceros file in procession towards the lunchroom. after they have gone through the first stage of processing for employment on United States' farms. They must…
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