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World War II Homefront Era: 1940s: Bracero Program Establishes New Migration Patterns

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First Braceros. ca. 1942. Dorothea Lange, photographer. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. Gift of Paul S. Taylor.

A Mexican worker is seen arriving in the U.S. during the early days of the Bracero program in this 1942 photograph by preeminent California documentary photographer Dorothea Lange.

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