Siam, Thailand & Bangkok Old Photo Thread

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Common Lanna style of river craft found throughout the navigable rivers of the north - seen here on the Ping River around Chiang Mai, 1913.

This design was most numerous, and the accepted standard, on the central plains and the broader Chao Phraya Basin from the 1880s up until the turn-of-the-century.......

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Notice the single Westerner judge sitting amongst Thai judges.
Was the short-lived fashion and precedent set by King Chulalongkorn, whom by then, had a induced love affair with all things Farang.

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