Siam photograph album

Photograph album containing photos of historical people and places from Siam (now Thailand). The album contains photographs of Siam (now Thailand). The subject of most of them are Siamese people, including the Royal Family. Also included are some shots of Bangkok scenes, houseboats, and Europeans visiting the photographer's house. The hand coloured copperplates at the end of the album are of Switzerland.

Subject

• Kings and rulers
• Dwellings
• History
• Human beings
• Boats and boating
• Houseboats

Language

• eng

Date created

• 1884?

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial

Extent

• 1 album (59 pages) : , 31 photographs (black and white) ; 25.5cm x 29.5cm, 3 hand-coloured copperplates

Geographic Coverage

• Thailand
• Thailand--Chao Phraya River
• Thailand--Bangkok

Coordinates

• 15.5, 101
• 13.87719, 100.71991
• 13.53333, 100.60214

Additional physical characteristics

• Photos are black and white and faded.

Physical Repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• photographs
• photograph albums
• black-and-white photographs

Archival item identifier

• Accession Number: 1992-P-1

Fonds title

• Siam photograph collection

Fonds identifier

• SC359

Is referenced by

• Finding aid for archival fonds: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/siam-photograph-collection

Date digitized

• May 15, 2017

Technical note

• Scanned on Betterlight TTI by CDW. 600 dpi TIFFs. Metadata by KD.

Rights

• Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to originals and for reproduction requests (fee for reproductions). This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/fe5q-rd54