Making a Difference, The Sixties

Category: Making a Difference, The Sixties

Making A Difference: Repatriating Photographs

Jan 14, 2009

I first learned of the United Fruit Company’s operations in Colombia, like many people, when I read Gabriel García Márquez’s 100 Years of Solitude and its description of the 1928 massacre of banana workers in Santa Marta. A few years later, I was researching United Fruit for my dissertation, and was met with a wall of silence when I tried to contact the company to gain access to its records. Several other scholars including Philippe …

Making A Difference: The United Fruit Company Collection at the Harvard Business School

Jan 1, 2009

Baker Library Historical Collections at Harvard Business School has extensive photographic collections documenting a range of companies and activities, Perhaps the most significant collection is the United Fruit Company Photograph Collection. Donated to Harvard Business School in 1979 by the United Brands Company, the United Fruit Collection consists of seventy-five photograph albums that illustrate the company’s …