Archives & Special Collections - Selected African Holdings

Archives & Special Collections - Selected African Holdings

University of Connecticut

Selected items with African Origination


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University of Connecticut · 2013

A rubber tapper uses a rubber knife on a hevea brasiliensis tree at the Firestone Plantation in Liberia.


University of Connecticut · 2013

View of the Firestone Harbel Factory taken by U. Roberto (Robin) Romano in 2013, in Margibi County, Liberia.


University of Connecticut · 2013

A Firestone truck drives through the entrance of the Firestone Harbel Factory in Margibi County, Liberia.


University of Connecticut · 2013

A 2013 portrait of Firestone Agricultural Workers Union of Liberia (FAWUL) Secretary General, Edwin Cisco.


University of Connecticut · 2013

A young boy poses to have a portrait taken by U. Roberto (Robin) Romano at the Harbel Firestone Plantation in Margibi County, Liberia.


University of Connecticut · 2013

The view looking out from a drainage pipe at the Sime Darby Berhad Palm Oil Plantation in Liberia.


University of Connecticut · 2013

A rubber tapper carries two latex buckets on his shoulders at the Firestone Plantation in Liberia. The buckets are headed to a collection center at the plantation.


University of Connecticut · 2013

A close-up still of the weathered hand of a rubber tapper, holding a rubber knife and a cup for sap collection.


University of Connecticut · 2013

Three young children, students at thei Firestone Plantation school, pose in their uniforms in front of the Firestone Agricultural Workers Union of Liberia (FAWUL) Head Office.


University of Connecticut · 2013

Rubber tappers rest near hevea brasiliensis trees at a collection station, at the Firestone Harbel Plantation in Margibi County, Liberia.