Mexican workers recruited and brought to the Arkansas Valley, Colorado, Nebraska and Minnesota
Title-Alternative
Latinos/Hispanics in Colorado Collection; image no. LC-USW33- 031870-C.
Summary
Mexican sugar beet workers, recruited by the Farm Security Administration to work in Colorado, Nebraska and Minnesota, look out the window of a passenger train. The three men wear hats and have mustaches. Graffiti chalked on the train under the window reads: "De las Democracias Sera la Victoria."
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- 031870-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.
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