The Bracero Program was instituted by the Mexican and United States governments to ease American agricultural labor shortages during World War Two. The program attracted millions of Mexican laborers, hopeful for higher wages and legal contract work, until its demise in 1964.
Pacific Southwest Trust and Savings Bank, 2-story building with colonnade, awnings, and Spanish tile roof, with street, pedestrians, and parked cars in foreground, sign at left reading Clayton & Welch New and Used Furniture
This photograph appears with the article, "El Centro Poet Shot in Mishap: Bard of Desert Wounded as Officers Seek Capture of Automobile Thieves," Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 1934: A12.
Street with traffic, parked cars, and pedestrians, with buildings with colonnade at left, signs reading Drugs and Furniture, buildings with arcade at right, banner stretched over road reading "Help Yourself, A Clean Play About Mud"