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Ford Employees Claude Smith, John Rogge, Curtis Pringle and James Kennedy with Children at Fordlandia, Boa Vista, Brazil, 1928-1931
1928/1931
The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI, United States
In 1928, Ford Motor Company established a 2.5 million-acre rubber plantation and industrial town - called Fordlandia - at Boa Vista in the Amazon Rainforest. The men pictured here helped select and acquire land along the Tapajos River for Fordlandia, which ultimately failed. Ford disposed of its Brazilian rubber operations in 1945.
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- Title: Ford Employees Claude Smith, John Rogge, Curtis Pringle and James Kennedy with Children at Fordlandia, Boa Vista, Brazil, 1928-1931
- Date Created: 1928/1931
- Location: Brazil, Boa Vista
- Subject Keywords: Rogge, John, d. 1937, Smith, Claude R., Kennedy, James, Pringle, Curtis A., 1898-1984, Ford Motor Company, Companhia Ford Industrial Do Brasil, Children, Employees, Photography, Rubber industry and trade, Photographic prints, Photographs
- Type: Photographs
- Contributor: The Henry Ford
- Original Source: Digital Collections
- Object Name: Photographic print
- Object ID: 64.167.494.2
- Image ID: THF116537
- Credit: From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
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