Bangkok (Thailand), construction site

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.The heavy clay has been cut out from this borrow pit to raise the adjacent land about a foot for residential construction. Suburbs of Bangkok, Central Thailand. As soon as the rains start, these pits will fill with rain water. April 1951.Grayscal