Aerial View of Fordlandia, Brazil, 1934 – (Ford Motor Company. Photographic Department) ◄ Trước Kế tiếp ►

Artist: Ford Motor Company. Photographic Department

viện bảo tàng: The Henry Ford (Dearborn, United States)

Kỹ thuật: 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.