Phrae Changwat (Thailand), view of northern mountains and farm fields

This set of images of Thailand was acquired by the American Geographical Society from Robert Larimore Pendleton (1890 -1957), soil scientist and Professor of Geography at John Hopkins University. The pictures were taken during Pendleton's research visits to Thailand from the mid 1930s to 1950s. Pendleton served as agricultural adviser to the United Nations FAO Mission to Siam [Thailand] in 1947-1948 and as the soil scientist at the US Mutual Security Agency's Special Technical and Economic Mission to Thailand in 1952-1953.In the clearing at the left is a small village. These kaingins [slash-and-burn agriculture] of the hill tribes are near the tops of the mountains between the Nan and Yom Rivers, about perhaps 15 miles south of east of Prae, Northern Thailand. January 1951Grayscal