Fordlandia rubber plantation photograph album, 1928-1930.

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Fordlandia rubber plantation photograph album, 1928-1930.

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The 16 x 12 inch album of forty-seven pages holds primarily 3 x 4 1/2 inch sepia toned photographic prints, most of which are dated and captioned. The album chronologically documents early construction projects at Fordlandia, the development of various botanical projects, and some aspects of daily life on the plantation. There is also one 8 x 10 inch photograph -- a group portrait that includes Edsel Ford and Henry Ford.

ca. 600 photographs (1 album)

The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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Ford, Henry, 1863-1947

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Industrialist and philanthropist Henry Ford, born July 30, 1863, grew up on a farm in what is now Dearborn, Michigan. Mechanically inclined from an early age, he worked in Detroit machine shops as a young man and became an engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company in 1891. Henry and Clara Jane Bryant, married in 1888, had one child, Edsel, born in 1893. In that same year, Henry tested his first internal combustion engine, and by 1896 completed his first car, the Quadricycle. Ford partnered in ...

Companhia Ford Industrial do Brasil

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Oxholm, Einar.

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The Ford Motor Company Brazilian rubber plantations at Fordlandia and Belterra had their genesis in Henry Ford's concern that a production cap set by British colonial producers of natural rubber in 1922 would lead to regularly increasing costs. Ford, considering investment offers from Brazil, sent Dr. Carl La Rue to the Amazon to investigate sites for a rubber plantation. La Rue recommended the Tapajos River valley. Eventually, a contingent of men led by Ford official W.L. Reeves Blakely selecte...

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Ford, Edsel, 1893-1943

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Edsel Ford's interests beyond automobiles and the automobile industry were broad and varied. He was president of the Arts Commission of the Detroit Institute of Arts, a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, and a trustee for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc. He was a member of the Isle Royal National Park Commission, chairman of the board of the Detroit University School, and a director of the Manufacturers National Bank of Detroit. He was active in Ford Motor Company educatio...