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Harvesting Chisel Used during Ford Motor Company's Brazilian Rubber Plantations Venture, 1928-1945
1928/1945
The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI, United States
From 1928 to 1945 Henry Ford tried, unsuccessfully, to establish productive rubber plantations on Brazil's Tapajos River. Rubber was an important component in Ford's automobiles, and he wanted a source that he controlled. W.L. Reeves Blakely, one of Ford's agents, selected the site for the Fordlandia plantation and used this harvesting chisel during his explorations.
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- Title: Harvesting Chisel Used during Ford Motor Company's Brazilian Rubber Plantations Venture, 1928-1945
- Date Created: 1928/1945
- Subject Keywords: Farming, Harvesting, Palms, Rubber plantation workers, Agricultural implements, Chisels
- Type: Objects
- Contributor: The Henry Ford
- Original Source: Digital Collections
- Object Name: Chisel
- Object ID: 64.167.534.4
- Image ID: THF160668
- Credit: From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
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