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Harvesting Knife 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 knife during his explorations.
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- Title: Harvesting Knife Used during Ford Motor Company's Brazilian Rubber Plantations Venture, 1928-1945
- Date Created: 1928/1945
- Location: Brazil, Fordlandia, Brazil, Para, Belterra
- Subject Keywords: Ford Motor Company, Companhia Ford Industrial Do Brasil, Holland America Plantation Company, Harvesting, Rubber plantation workers, Rubber trees, Agricultural implements, Harvesting knives
- Type: Objects
- Contributor: The Henry Ford
- Original Source: Digital Collections
- Object Name: Harvesting knife
- Object ID: 64.167.534.2
- Image ID: THF160666
- Credit: From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
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