Bracero Hat, about 1957
date: label: used date
content: 1942-1945
name: label: user
content: Castro, Savas Zavala
notes: label: Description
content: Savas Zahvala Castro wore this hat when he was a bracero working in California.
label: Description
content: The Emergency Farm Labor Program, or the Bracero Program (1942-1964), recruited two million Mexican nationals to come to the United States on short-term labor contracts. Some returned to Mexico; others stayed in the U.S. to work, marry, or start new lives and advanced, using the knowledge they gained while in the U.S. These settlements of Mexican, Mexican American migrants eventually formed thriving communities in the U.S.
place: label: place made
content: United States: California
topic: label: Subject
content: Latino
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content: Home and Community Life: Ethnic
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content: Food
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: FOOD: Transforming the American Table 1950-2000
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the Ramierez Zavala Family
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0192.01
label: accession number
content: 2005.0192
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0192.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hat
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 37.5 cm x 33.5 cm x 12 cm; 14 3/4 in x 13 3/16 in x 4 3/4 in