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

An account book kept by a Firestone Plantation rubber tapper details product weights on March 1st and 2nd of 2013.


University of Connecticut · 2013

Bystanders look on as a shoe repairman, working on a pair of shoes, pauses for a portrait at the Firestone Harbel Plantation in Margibi County, Liberia.


University of Connecticut · 2013

A 2013 portrait of a Firestone Agricultural Workers Union of Liberia (FAWUL) Officer.


University of Connecticut · 2013

A 2013 portrait of Firestone Agricultural Workers Union of Liberia (FAWUL) President, Austin Natee.


University of Connecticut · 2013

A worker carries a bucket of latex on her head to a collection point at the Firestone Plantation in Margibi County, Liberia.


University of Connecticut · 2013

A young boy at the Harbel Firestone Plantation poses for a portrait.


University of Connecticut · 2013

A rubber tapper sits among Firestone latex buckets at the Firestone Plantation in Margibi County, Liberia.


University of Connecticut · 2013

The Civil Society Coalition ("a coalition of Liberian civil society organizations working toward sustainable resource management, transparent governance, and respect for the rights of the rural poor") responds to concession …


University of Connecticut · 2013

A young girl poses in her Firestone School uniform at the Firestone Harbel Factory in Margibi County, Liberia.


University of Connecticut · 2013

A collection cup catches rubber sap (natural rubber latex) as it drips from the tap in a hevea brasiliensis tree at the Firestone Plantation, Margibi County, Liberia.