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shantytown: Media

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Witness the lives of gold miners in shantytowns along the road network that carves up the Amazon Rainforest
Shantytowns filled with gold miners in the Amazon River basin.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Images

Hooverville
A shanytown (“Hooverville”) in Seattle, c. 1932–37.
Washington State Archives/Digital Archives