Sepia photograph with an inscription representing houses on water, boats, a few people and a row of houses and trees in the background.
View of floating houses on the Chao Phraya in Bangkok, Siam (now Thailand). Wooden building at left has a "porch" where people are doing various tasks. Small boats are tied alongside. Numerous similar structures in the midground. A tower rises above trees in background. | Inscription: "Floating houses on the Chow Phya river / Bangkok, Siam. / 1874 / C.A.L." on front in ink in cursive by Charles Longfellow. | Dates and notes: 1874 as given in inscription.
Archives Number: 1008.2/2.1#289
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Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Code: LONG
Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Latitude: 42.3769989013672, Longitude: -71.1264038085938
Photograph in Charles Appleton Longfellow Papers, Subcollection II. Photographic Materials, Photographs Not in Albums, Photographs Related to East Asia. (1008.002/002.001)
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