Undocumented Mexican workers arrested in rail yard, Los Angeles, 1953

Item Overview

Title: Undocumented Mexican workers arrested in rail yard, Los Angeles, 1953
Date Created: 1953
Date: 1953
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Notes

Description: Undocumented Mexican workers (identified as "wetbacks" in a handwritten notation on the negative) are discovered and arrested by a Los Angeles police officer in a Southern Pacific rail yard.

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Extent: 1 photograph

Keywords

Genre: news photographs
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Foreign workers, Mexican--California--Los Angeles Region
Crime
Mexican Americans
Legal
Undocumented immigrants--United States
Mexicans--United States

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Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/13030/hb1b69n7r2
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Rights Country: US
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