United Fruit Company
Biography
The United Fruit Company was formed in 1899 when the Boston Fruit Company merged with several other companies that produced, imported, and marketed bananas from the Caribbean islands, Central America, and Colombia. The principal founder was Minor C. Keith, who developed banana plantations in Costa Rica beginning in the 1870s. During the early decades of the twentieth century, United Fruit’s distribution networks spread throughout the United States and Europe. By 1930, the company had absorbed more than twenty rival firms and was the largest employer in Central America.
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Records of companies acquired by the United Fruit Company
Collection Identifier: Mss:1 1897-1955 R311The records contain minutes, charters, by-laws, and annual reports of fruit and related companies acquired by the United Fruit Company or in which it owned stock, 1897-1955.
Richard P. Strong papers
Collection Identifier: GA 82The Richard P. Strong papers consist of records reflecting the scientific work and career of Richard Pearson Strong. Strong was an expert in tropical medicine and worked in the United States, the Philippines, South America, and Africa.
Andrew R. Towl papers
Collection Identifier: Arch GA 88The papers of Harvard Business School professor Andrew R. Towl include correspondence, teaching materials, research and writing, and administrative records.
United Fruit Company Photograph Collection
Collection Identifier: Mss:1 1891-1962 U860The collection consists of seventy-five photograph albums that document the United Fruit Company’s operations and holdings in Central and South America, the West Indies, and the United States.
REFINE MY RESULTS:
- Subject
- Agriculture 1
- Annual reports 1
- Banana trade 1
- Bananas 1
- Brazil -- Discovery and exploration. 1
- Business -- History. 1
- Business -- Study and teaching. 1
- Business education. 1
- Bylaws 1
- Case method -- History. 1
- Case method -- Study and teaching. 1
- Charters 1
- Clippings 1
- Congo (Brazzaville) -- Description and travel. 1
- DVDs. 1
- Epidemiologists. 1
- Expeditions 1
- Fruit trade 1
- Guatemala -- Description and travel. 1
- Guatemala Expedition (1931-1932). 1
- Harvard Medical African Expedition (First) (1926-1927). 1
- Harvard Medical African Expedition (Second) (1934). 1
- Liberia -- Description and travel. 1
- Manchuria (China) 1
- Minutes 1
- Onchocerciasis 1
- Onchocerciasis. 1
- Peru -- Description and travel. 1
- Photographic prints. 1
- Plague 1
- Plague -- China -- Manchuria. 1
- Scientific expeditions. 1
- Serbia. 1
- South American Expedition (1913). 1
- Tropical Medicine 1
- Tropical medicine -- Research. 1
- Typhus fever -- Yugoslavia -- Serbia. 1
- Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne 1
- World War I 1
- World War II 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care. 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Education and the war. 1
- Yucatan Medical Expedition (1931). 1
- Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- Description and travel. 1 ∧ less