Caption

Informal housing built on logs, known as the floating city, Manaus, Brazil 1962, which was removed as part of the slum clearance policy in the late 1960s

Date

Feb 12, 2021

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Ian Murray

Reference

BRK25D74_408

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

41,5Mb (2,8Mb) / 15,6in x 10,4in / 4666 x 3106 (300dpi)

Keywords

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