Sepia photograph with an inscription representing a garden with potted plants, a manmade pool with a bridge and a man standing on it, a building and trees in the background.
View of the pleasure garden of the Siamese Minister of Foreign Affairs. Tiled-roof building in background faces a manmade rectangular pool of water. Numerous potted plants on ceramic stands are lined up along the sides of the pool. A man wearing what looks to be formal Siamese attire stands on a bridge over the pool. | Inscription: "Pleasure garden and billiard room of His Excellency Chow Phya Bhanuirongse Maha Kosa T'ibaudi, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bankok / 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#293
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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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