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Fordlandia
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The plantations of Fordlandia and Belterra were two attempts by the Ford Motor Company from 1928-1945 to establish a permanent rubber plantation presence in Brazil. The goal of setting up the Ford...
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Ford employees identified as Jessup, LaRue, and Weir, in Para, Brazil, ca. 1928.
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Cemetery at Fordlandia, ca. 1931.
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Page from a photo album containing pictures of Matthew Mulrooney and his wife who moved from Iron Mountain, MI to Fordlandia, ca. 1930.
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Filming family life at Fordlandia. North Americans left to right: Claude R. Smith, John Rogge, Curtis Pringle, and James Kennedy with camera, ca. 1931.
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Rubber trees growing in Fordlandia, ca. 1933.
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Logs from clearing Fordlandia, ca. 1929.
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Boy Scouts boxing at the golf course, Fordlandia, ca. 1945.
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Road construction, Fordlandia, ca. 1929.
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Fordlandia hospital, ca. 1933.
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A patient arriving at Fordlandia's hospital, which was designed by Albert Kahn, ca. 1931.
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Two workers holding hand axes next to an enormous tree in Fordlandia, ca. 1931.
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Laborer's house built at Fordlandia, ca. 1931.
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Viewing a sea cow, or manatee, at Fordlandia.
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Jorge Villares, back left, and work crew at Fordlandia, May 4, 1928.
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Seed beds being prepared at Fordlandia, ca. 1929.
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General Electric generator in Fordlandia's powerhouse, ca. 1933.
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Terraced hillside ready for planting rubber trees at Fordlandia, ca. 1931.
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John Rogge with a year old rubber tree, ca. 1931.
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Fordlandia dance hall with movie screen. Building has roof and floor but no sides, ca. 1933.
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Workers clearing the jungle at Fordlandia, June 18, 1934.
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Page from a photo album containing pictures of the Perini family which moved from Iron Mountain, MI to Fordlandia, ca. 1930.
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Night photograph of tree burning to clear the land at Fordlandia, ca. 1929.
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Fordlandia saw mill, ca. 1931.
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Fordlandia aerial view, ca. 1933.
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Dr. Claude R. Smith, a pathologist, and Mrs. Smith at Fordlandia with a collection of butterflies, tarantulas, and other jungle fauna.
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Fordlandia houses on Riverside Avenue, ca. 1933.
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Shoe store at Belterra, Brazil, ca. 1938.
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1937 Ford stuck in the mud at Fordlandia, ca. 1940.
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Portrait of Archibald Johnston, manager of Fordlandia, ca. 1932.
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Stranded tug Santarem in a floating river-grass island, Fordlandia, ca. 1935.
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Ford executives on the deck of the Lake Ormoc.
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Golf course at Fordlandia, ca. 1941.
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School building, Fordlandia, ca. 1933.
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The President of Brazil, Dr. Getulo Vargas, addressing staff in the Club House at Belterra, ca. 1940.
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Lake Ormoc being towed into the dock by the tugboat Santarem, Fordlandia, ca. 1930.
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Rubber trees that are 4 1/2 years old, Fordlandia, ca. 1936.
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Payday at Fordlandia, ca. 1933.
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Burning 1000 acres at Fordlandia to clear the land, ca. 1933.
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Fordlandia time clock, destroyed in the riot of December 1930.
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Swimming pool at Fordlandia, ca. 1930-1940.
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Image of a grafted rubber tree, Fordlandia, ca. 1940.
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The first clearing of jungle for Fordlandia, ca. 1928.
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Fordlandia terraces containing 16 month old rubber trees, ca. 1931.
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Power house, Fordlandia, ca. 1935.
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Rubber trees at Fordlandia, ca. 1937.
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A Fordlandia hospital ward, ca. 1931.
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Photograph of the riverboat Aquiry docked at Fordlandia, ca. 1931.
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Clearing trees at Fordlandia, ca. 1933.
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Felling a Favina Branca with hand axes, Fordlandia, ca. 1931.
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Dusting nursery plants at Belterra, ca. 1938.
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James Weir with women and children from Fordlandia, ca. 1924.
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Belterra hospital, ca. 1933.
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Belterra school children, ca. 1940.
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Panoramic view of cleared fields at Fordlandia, ca. 1934.
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View of employee housing, Fordlandia, ca. 1933.
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View of part of the Belterra nursery containing over 4.5 million seedlings, ca. 1935.
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