"Redeeming a rubber empire: Ford builds an industry in the Amazon Jungles" photograph album, 1931.

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"Redeeming a rubber empire: Ford builds an industry in the Amazon Jungles" photograph album, 1931.

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The album is comprised of eighty-three 10 x 12 inch black and white photographs with captions that document Ford Motor Company rubber activities in Brazil in 1931. The album includes images of staff housing and dormitories; native housing and native families; schools, school children, and boy scouts; gardens and farming; roads and road construction; jungle clearing, burning, logging and planting; rubber trees at various stages of growth; long views of the plantation and the river; the cemetery; and a wildlife exhibit. The title is embossed in gold on the cover of the album.

83 photographs (1 album)

The Henry Ford, Benson Ford Research Center

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