Leonard Nadel Photographs and Scrapbooks

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Leonard Nadel Photographs and Scrapbooks

1950-2006; bulk 1956-1960

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Photographer Leonard Nadel's supplemental material relating to and photographs of the Mexican braceros (manual laborers). They were photographed in California, Texas, and Mexico for the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic during the late 1950s and early 1960s in support of a report entitled Strangers in Our Fields by Dr. Ernesto Galarza.

3 Cubic feet (10 boxes)

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center

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National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center

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Nadel, Leonard 1916-1990.

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The American photojournalist Leonard Nadel (1916-1990) recieved a bachelor's degree from City College of New York, trained at the Army Signal Corps Photographic Center, and received a master's degree in education from Teachers College, Columbia University before moving to Los Angeles to study photography at the Art Center College of Design, during wihich time he began to document public housing in Los Angeles, focusing on Pueblo del Rio and Aliso Village. On the strength of this work Nadel was h...