Terraced Hillside Ready for Planting of Rubber Trees at Fordlandia, Brazil, 1931 – (Ford Motor Company. Photographic Department) ◄ Попередній наступне ►

Artist: Ford Motor Company. Photographic Department

Музей: The Henry Ford (Dearborn, United States)

техніка: Photograph

Henry Ford established Fordlandia and Belterra in the Brazilian rainforest to supply rubber for automobile production. He began shipping machinery and supplies to the Amazon in 1928. Ford paid the indigenous workers good wages and supplied various amenities -- he also imposed foreign work traditions and behavioral restrictions which the workers resented. The plantations failed and he disposed of the project in 1945.