Penal colony of Clevelândia
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The penal colony of Clevelândia, located in the current district of Clevelândia do Norte, Amapá, functioned from 1924 to 1926 in the extreme north of Brazil, bordering French Guiana. It was installed
Workers on one of the colony's rivers in 1925
A football match in front of the administration house
Cattle on Boulevard Rio Branco
Official propaganda photograph showing a settler and the cassava root harvested on his plot
São Paulo Revolt of 1924
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The São Paulo Revolt of 1924, also called the Revolution of 1924, Movement of 1924 or Second 5th of July was a Brazilian conflict with characteristics of a civil war, initiated by tenentist rebels to
Penal colony of Clevelândia
…1924. According to Romani, this first group included 250 military personnel and another 150 people arrested in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo since the revolt on 5 July to early December. The soldiers of this group had served mainly on Brazilian Navy battleships and submarines in the capital, where, in October and…
At the top: fires in São Paulo. Middle left: machine gun position in Vila Mariana. Middle right: Cotonifício Crespi damaged by the bombings. Bottom left: effects of an air attack. Bottom right: soldiers on the roof of the 1st Battalion of the Public Force.
Viaduto do Chá in the 1920s
Isidoro Dias Lopes (left) and Miguel Costa
Soldiers of the Public Force of São Paulo