Fordlandia estatemap / drawn by O.G.
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- Created Date
- 1936
- Description
Blueline print.; North oriented to the left.; Shows plantation houses, barracks, railroads, roads, condemned areas, creeks, jungle or second growth areas, etc.; Annotated in color.; Includes statistics table showing camps, houses and families by place.; "C.F.I. - 24 - 238."; "Date Apr. 24-1934, March - 12, 1935, May-6, 1936."; Gift [to the American Geographical Sociey of NY] from Dr. Lewis Hanke, 1939.; 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.
43 photographs held at the AGS Library from Robert S. Platt in Fordlandia. You may view them here: http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/search/searchterm/fordlandia/field/all/mode/all/conn/and/order/title/page/1 More information on the Robert S. Platt collection: http://uwm.edu/libraries/agsl/robert-s-platt/
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- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Collection
- American Geographical Society Library - Maps
American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection - Publisher
- Companhia Ford Industrial do Brasil
- Subjects
- Companhia Ford Industrial do Brasil -- Maps
Ford Motor Company -- Maps
Ford Motor Company. Foreign Operations Department
Plantations -- Amazon River Region -- Maps
Rubber industry and trade -- Brazil -- Maps
Belterra (Brazil) -- Maps - Type
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- Language
- English
- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- Fordlandia estatemap / drawn by O.G.. 1936. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/7497. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- (1936) Fordlandia estatemap / drawn by O.G.. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/7497
- MLA citation style
- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/7497>.