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The Bracero Monument by Dan Medina is installed in Los Angeles, California. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The 19-foot-tall monument features a bronze sculpture of a Mexican migrant and his family (wife and son). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Bracero refers to the Bracero Program .
After the bracero program, it became a law enforcement training area, began housing some city offices and a community center, and even served as a set for the 2000 film “Traffic.”
This is a list of museums in Orange County, California, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing ...
Rio Vista Bracero Reception Center is a historic farm site in Socorro, Texas, [1] that served orphaned children and homeless adults of mostly Hispanic descent. The farm was created in 1915, as the El Paso Poor Farm. During the Great Depression the population grew and a variety of public welfare programs became available to farm residents.
The Dr. John D. Cooper Archaeological and Paleontological Center, or Cooper Center, was established by OC Parks and California State University, Fullerton in order to conserve, archive and manage the Orange County Archaeology and Paleontology Collections, including six million fossils.
The Western Science Center (WSC), formerly the Western Center for Archaeology & Paleontology, [1] is a museum located near Diamond Valley Lake in Hemet, California.The WSC is home to a large collection of Native American artifacts and Ice Age fossils that were unearthed at Diamond Valley Lake, including "Max", the largest mastodon found in the western United States, and "Xena", a Columbian ...
The Education Earth Museum, which opened at 475 Main St. on May 12, was founded by Storm Plains, a published author who is an expert on archaeology, UFOlogy, and cryptozoology, which is the study ...
This list of prehistoric sites in the U.S. State of Colorado includes historical and archaeological sites of humans from their earliest times in Colorado to just before the Colorado historic period, which ranges from about 12,000 BC to AD 19th century. The Period is defined by the culture enjoyed at the time, from the earliest hunter-gatherers ...