James Weir in Brazil on an Expedition for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1923
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In 1923, threatened by a rising English rubber monopoly, President Herbert Hoover ordered an expedition to study the possibility of growing rubber in the Amazon. As a member of the original trip, plant pathologist James Weir became one of few Americans with experience studying South American rubber trees. Edsel Ford would hire Weir in 1933 to help with Ford's Brazilian rubber tree plantations.
In 1923, threatened by a rising English rubber monopoly, President Herbert Hoover ordered an expedition to study the possibility of growing rubber in the Amazon. As a member of the original trip, plant pathologist James Weir became one of few Americans with experience studying South American rubber trees. Edsel Ford would hire Weir in 1933 to help with Ford's Brazilian rubber tree plantations.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
02 September 1923
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
80.300.1514.P.25033
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 4.5 in
Width: 7 in
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