Bangkok (Thailand), houses built on raised land

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.Bangkok has been built on a very low, flat plain. The earth for raising the level of this building site was excavated from the deep burrow pit at the right, now filled with rain water. Central Thailand. April 1951Grayscal