United Fruit Company
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The United Fruit Company was an American multinational corporation that traded in tropical fruit grown on Latin American plantations and sold in the United States and Europe. The company was formed in
Entrance façade of the old United Fruit Building at 321 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana
Banana company staff in Jamaica as part of United Fruit Company campaign to promote tourism
Docks of the United Fruit Company in New Orleans, 1922
An illustration from The Golden Caribbean
Minor Cooper Keith
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Minor Cooper Keith was an American businessman whose railroad, commercial agriculture, and cargo liner enterprises had a major impact on the national economies of the Central American countries, as we
United Fruit Company
…Latin American plantations and sold in the United States and Europe. The company was formed in 1899 from the merger of the Boston Fruit Company with Minor C. Keith's banana-trading enterprises. It flourished in the early and mid-20th century, and it came to control vast territories and transportation networks in…
Keith in 1917
Board of Trustees of the Heye Foundation, 1920. From left to right: Minor C. Keith, James Bishop Ford, George Gustav Heye, Frederic Kimber Seward, Frederick Kingsbury Curtis, Samuel Riber, Jr., Archer Milton Huntington, and Harmon Washington Hendricks.