Mato Grosso, Brazil, in the 1930s Photographic Album
Collection
Identifier: 2022-016
Scope and Contents
This photographic album contains 42 black and white photographs of Companhia Viação São Paulo as the company developed the area of the upper Paraná River in Mato Grosso do Sul during the 1930s. Photographs are of towns, ports, ships, and company operations around the Paraná River as well as landscape surrounding the area in both Brazil and Argentina. All photographs measure approximately 3 1/4" x 4 1/4" and are captioned.
Dates
- circa 1930s
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Biographical / Historical
The Brazilian state Mato Grosso is the third largest state in the country with open pasture and vegetation covering roughly 40% of its area. Mato Grosso did not define land ownership policy until about the 1960s, which allowed for developers to exploit rural land for private business colonization. The objective was for businesses to purchase land in Mato Grosso and develop it into agricultural spaces or ranches using the newly constructed infrastructures throughout the region. With the colonization projects, land was cleared and destroyed leading to economic destability and limitations. Brazil slowly began to take control of individual companies beginning as early as the 1940s as colonization projects were leading to compromised education, housing, health, and social standards. Companhia Viação São Paulo went under government control in 1942 until it closed in 1972.
Extent
0.2 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
Portuguese
- Title
- Guide to Mato Grosso, Brazil, in the 1930s Photographic Album
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- September 2022
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections Repository