Bracero

Title

Bracero

Creator

Lowe, Ernest, 1934-

Subject

Migrant agricultural laborers

Description

Scope/Content: A Bracero (a Mexican national brought in for farm work) in a sugar beet field near Modesto. He uses a short-handled hoe which requires stooping over all day to weed the beets.

Contributor

UC Merced, Library and Special Collections

Date

1961-07-11

Type

image

Format

Photographs

Identifier

6831206

Source

Ernest Lowe Photography Collection

Language

English

Relation

Field and Orchard Work

Coverage

Modesto (city); Stanislaus (county); California; United States

Rights

Copyrighted
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC 4.0)

Files

Bracero.png

Citation

Lowe, Ernest, 1934- , “Bracero,” Santa Clara University Digital Exhibits, accessed April 18, 2026, https://dh.scu.edu/exhibits/items/show/5761.

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