Companhia Ford Industrial do Brasil records, 1920-1950.

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Companhia Ford Industrial do Brasil records, 1920-1950.

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The records are comprised of material relating to operations of the Ford Motor Company rubber plantations at Fordlandia and Belterra, Brazil. Accounting files include costs, audits, employee data, inventories, progress reports, material listings, and general financial records. Also included are medical reports, photographs, and Russell Roberge correspondence and reports. Roberge headed the Ford Motor Company Foreign Operations Department from 1920 through much of the 1940s.

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The plantations of Fordlandia and Belterra were two attempts by the Ford Motor Company from 1928 to 1945 to establish a permanent rubber plantation presence in Brazil. The goal of setting up the Ford Motor Company of Brazil was two-fold: to supply Ford's internal demand for rubber as well as to provide a better way of life for the Brazilians who lived and worked on the plantations. The plantations were testaments to the innovations of agriculture and industry related to commercial cultivation in...