Tires to Tinned Fish
Photograph
Tires to Tinned Fish
Ghana's New Port Kills a Colorful Old Custom
1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 3/16 × 5 13/16 in. (23.3 × 14.7 cm)
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0101
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Ghana Port) 11/61 11) TIRE TO TINNED FISH: for centuries \ Accra's 1600 surfboaters have been responsible for \ the coming and going of goods to this former British \ colony on the Gold Coast. Nowadays they earn about \ $2.50 per day, a large sum in a country where average \ individual earnings are about $140 per year. \ Credit: Marc Riboud © 1961 MAGNUM Photos
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