Bangkok, Cultural Documentation: Photograph of elephant saddle
Date
Circa 1910
Location
Architecture Library, Hesburgh Libraries
A photograph of Thai porters and guides posing with an elephant saddle (a covered pavilion for two, like a howdah) near Bangkok ca. 1890-1910. Distributed before 1912 by the French company G. Massiot & Cie (actual photographer unknown).
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