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Employee Home with Garden at Belterra Rubber Plantation, Brazil, circa 1939

1938/1940

The Henry Ford

The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI, United States

Henry Ford established Fordlandia and Belterra in the Brazilian rainforest to supply rubber for automobile production. He began shipping machinery and supplies to the Amazon in 1928. Ford paid the indigenous workers good wages and supplied various amenities -- he also imposed foreign work traditions and behavioral restrictions which the workers resented. The plantations failed and he disposed of the project in 1945.

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  • Title: Employee Home with Garden at Belterra Rubber Plantation, Brazil, circa 1939
  • Date: 1938/1940
  • Location: Brazil, Para, Belterra, Brazil, Fordlandia
  • Subject Keywords: Ford Motor Company, Companhia Ford Industrial Do Brasil, Industrial housing, Rubber plantation workers, Gardens (Open spaces), Houses, Photographic prints, Photographs
  • Type: Photographs
  • Contributor: The Henry Ford
  • Original Source: Digital Collections
  • Object Name: Photographic print
  • Object ID: P.833.74737.8
  • Image ID: THF95643
  • Credit: From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
The Henry Ford

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