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Mss Eur F252/65
- Record Id:
- 040-002291285
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002291215
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001001.0x0000e2
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur F252/65
- Title:
- Fifth World Forestry Congress at Seattle, Washington, August-September 1960 and a visit to Thailand
- Scope & Content:
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Diary includes:
- Folio 1 verso: photograph of a Chinese carved figure of a soldier, possibly Portuguese
- Folio 2 recto: photograph at a statuary at Wai Po, showing a representation, in stone, of a pagoda
- Folio 2 verso: colour photograph of the Summer Palace, Bang Pa-in, Ayudhya, Thailand
- Folio 2a: sheet of 12 Thailand unused postage stamps, valued at 1 Thai Baht per stamp [loose item]
- Folio 2b: unused Thailand postage stamp, valued at 1 Thai Baht [loose item]
- Folio 2c: unused Thailand postage stamp, valued at 5 St. [loose item]
- Folio 2d: sheet of 5 Thailand unused postage stamps, valued at 10 st. per stamp [loose item]
- Folio 2e: unused Thailand postage stamp, valued at 25 St. [loose item]
- Folio 2f: unused Thailand postage stamp, valued at 50 St. [loose item]
- Folio 2g: untitled photograph showing 4 persons [loose item]
- Folio 2h: calendar for March 1961 with handwritten notes [loose item]
- Folio 3 verso: photograph of Wat Suthet (Suthat) Buddhist temple and the giant swing
- Folio 3a: pencil sketch on notepaper of an ‘edible lizard’ [loose item]
- Folio 4 verso: postcard colour picture of a B.O.A.C. Comet 4 Jetliner
- Folio 5 verso: cutting from an unnamed publication showing a photograph and description of conservationist Charles Lathrop Pack
- Folio 6 verso: empty envelope showing the Fifth World Forestry Congress logo and postage stamp
- Folio 7 verso: colour photograph of a dining area inside the Student Union building at the University of Washington, Seattle
- Folio 8 verso: colour photograph of a view of Seattle with Lake Union and Mount Rainier
- Folio 9 verso: colour photograph of a typical student room at the University of Washington, Seattle
- Folio 15 verso: photograph of Mount Rainier, from Paradise Valley
- Folio 16 verso: colour photograph of Emmans Glacier, off Mount Rainier (with the desription “the largest in the US mainland”)
- Folio 17 verso: colour photograph of a Boeing 707 (Western) jet airliner (Seattle to Los Angeles)
- Folio 19 verso: reproduction of a colour picture of a Japan Air Lines (Seattle to Tokyo) jet airliner
- Folio 20 verso: colour photograph of a Japan Air Lines (Tokyo to Bangkok) DC68 jet airliner
- Folio 21 verso: photograph of an evergreen forest recently cleared for rice cultivation (Dong Sur Plur, Udorn)
- Folio 22 verso: photograph showing an interior view of the Wat Phra Keo (Wat Phra Kaew) at Bangkok, known in English as the ‘Temple of the Emerald Buddha’
- Folio 23 verso: photograph of the “Reclining Buddha” at Wat Po, Thailand
- Folio 24 verso: colour photograph of Wat Arun (or Temple of Dawn), Bangkok, Thailand
- Folio 25 verso: photograph of on outside view of No.73 Phya Thai Road
- Folio 25 verso: photograph of caryatids at Wat Phra Keo, Thailand
- Folio 26 verso: photograph of stone Chinese dancing figures at Wat Po, Thailand
- Folio 27 verso: photograph of the golden statue of Kinara at Wat Phra Keo, Thailand
- Folio 28 verso: photograph of topiary and statuary at Wat Phra Keo, Thailand
- Folio 29 verso: photograph of stone pigs “wallowing” at Wat Po, Thailand
- Folio 30 verso: photograph of caryatids at Wat Phra Keo
- Folio 30 verso: photograph of the stone flirting couple at Wat Phra Keo
- Folio 31 verso: photograph of a large building at Bang Pa In
- Folio 32 verso: two photographs of Chinese figures carved in stone, at Wat Po
- Folio 33 verso: colour photograph of Sudhai Savan Hall, Summer Palace, Ayudhya
- Folio 34 verso: photograph of a Chinese figure carved in stone, at Wat Po
- Folio 34 verso: photograph of a Chinese figure carved in stone, at Wat Phra Keo
- Folio 35 verso: photograph of the Golden Buddha statues at Wat Po Buddhist Temple
- Folio 35 verso: photograph of a courtyard at Wat Po Buddhist Temple
- Folio 36 verso: photograph showing one of the entrances at Wat Po Buddhist Temple
- Folio 37 verso: photograph of a statue of one of the guardians at Wat Po
- Folio 38 verso: photograph of a view of Wat Po
- Folio 38 verso: photograph of a courtyard area at Wat Po
- Folio 39 verso: photograph of a yang tree at Wat Chedi Luang (Chiengmai)
- Folio 40 verso: photograph of a view over Chiengmai from the Doi-Suthep road, Thailand
- Folio 40 verso: photograph of the “Old Chedi and Buddha” (Chiengmai)
- Folio 41 verso: photograph of a Wat Doi Suthep (temple) building (Chiengmai)
- Folio 41 verso: photograph of a Wat Doi Suthep (temple) Golden Buddha statues (Chiengmai)
- Folio 42 verso: photograph of confiscated teak logs on the Chiengmai-Fang road (Kriang Krai’s No.19)
- Folio 43 verso: photograph of tree lined Yang Avenue along the Chiengmai-Lampoon Road
- Folio 44 verso: photograph of a typical forest house (Chiengmai)
- Folio 44 verso: photograph of a painting and a golden Buddha statue at Wat Doi Suthep, near Chiengmai
- Folio 45 verso: photograph of an outside view of Wat Sao Chedi Buddhist temple, Lampang, Thailand
- Folio 45a: leaf pressing from an unnamed species of plant [loose item]
- Folio 46 verso: photograph of tree enumeration work in progress (Boonsong, Kraingkrai’s No.16)
- Folio 47 verso: photograph showing transportation difficulties on the road to the Mae Mah Lignite mine, Lampang
- Folio 48 verso: photograph of a teak tree with ficus at the Pratu Pha Pass on the Lampang Ngao road, Thailand
- Folio 48 verso: photograph of “spirit houses” (miniature structures dedicated to honour the guardians of the land) at the Pratu Pha Pass on the Lampang Ngao road, Thailand
- Folio 49 verso: photograph of an “F.I.O.” elephant at work in Ngao Forest
- Folio 50 verso: photograph of “F.I.O.” rest camp and teak trees at Ngao Forest
- Folio 50 verso: photograph of map study at Lampung (with Chaliau and “C” and “H”)
- Folio 51 verso: photograph of an entrance to a limestone cave at Tam Pha Thai, near Ngao
- Folio 51 verso: photograph of teak logs by the Me Wang road, Lampang
- Folio 52 verso: photograph at the Tung plantation at Chiengrai, showing a group photograph with Mr and Mrs Pradidh Taotiemrom
- Folio 53 verso: photograph of the Mekong River (Chieng Saen)
- Folio 53 verso: photograph of trees divided by a road at Chieng Saen (with the description “teak on an old city wall”)
- Folio 54 verso: photograph of yang trees (at 'Km 256') on the Mae Sai-Chieng Rai road
- Folio 54 verso: photograph of the ferry across to Burma (Mae Sai)
- Folio 55 verso: photograph of shifting cultivation at Mae Sai
- Folio 55 verso: photograph of fishing in old borrow pits (Prae-Nan road)
- Folio 56 verso: photograph of the Ratana family at F.R.H. Prae
- Folio 57 verso: photograph of Range Quarters No.30 (Prae)
- Folio 57 verso: photograph of the entrance to the stairway to Bra Thar Hair Wat at Paer
- Folio 58 verso: photograph of a steam locomotive and the loading of wood fuel at Denchai
- Folio 60 verso: photograph of a devastated teak plantation on the Prae to Denchai road
- Folio 60 verso: photograph of a “so far” protected teak plantation on the Prae to Denchai road
- Folio 61 verso: photograph of mixed forest on the Prae to Pisanuloke road
- Folio 62 verso: photograph of Wat Phra Sri Ratana Maha Thai (Buddhist temple) at Pisanuloke
- Folio 63 verso: two photographs of elephants moving camp on the Tak-Nakornsawan road
- Folio 64 verso: photograph of the Yan Hee dam under construction
- Folio 65 verso: photograph of the Khaw-Naw Hills, Nakorn Sawan
- Folio 65 verso: photograph of the “familiar trouble” (showing a land rover vehicle leaning sideways on the Tak-Nakurn road)
- Folio 66 verso: photograph of the rafting of teak logs down a Ping Wang river
- Folio 67 verso: photograph showing a view of Borapet Lake
- Folio 67 verso: photograph of Wira children on “the” crocodile
- Folio 68 verso: two photographs of Chauphya dam with Eichornia aquatic plant growth
- Folio 69 verso: photograph of the Monkey Temple building at Lobpuri, Thailand
- Folio 69 verso: photograph of an area near the Monkey Temple at Lobpuri, Thailand
- Folio 70 verso: photograph of the Mekong River at Nong Phai across into Laos, near Udorn, Thailand
- Folio 71 verso: group photograph of a party of people facing the camera at Forest Camp, near Rajasima, Thailand
- Folio 72 verso: photograph of a jute crop near Jaibhum, Thailand
- Folio 73 verso: photograph at Jaibhum sawmill with Hopea timber
- Folio 74 verso: photograph of a group of Yang trees near Jaibhum, Thailand
- Folio 76 verso: photograph of a new concrete bridge north of Jaibhum, Thailand
- Folio 77 verso: photograph of an inventory party in a dry Dipterocarp tree area, near Jaibhum, Thailand
- Folio 78 verso: photograph of a ruined wat (temple) near Jaibhum, Thailand
- Folio 78 verso: group photograph of members of the Promhands family at “Buayai & Pathnet”
- Folio 79 verso: photograph of surviving Anisoptera trees (Ong Bang EE Forest, Ubol, Thailand)
- Folio 81 verso: photograph of Sakol Nakorn Lake, Thailand, with Casuarinas trees alongside
- Folio 82 verso: photograph of the bridge over Namkam River near Wat That Panom, Thailand
- Folio 83 verso: photograph of the main entrance at Wat That Panom, Thailand
- Folio 84 verso: photograph of a decorated stone exterior (Wat That Panom, Mukhdaham, Thailand)
- Folio 85 verso: photograph of Anisoptera trees beside a road in Dongra Kang
- Folio 86 verso: photograph of an evergreen forest recently opened up for rice cultivation (Udorn, Thailand)
- Folio 88 verso: photograph of Pinus mercusie trees alongside a road (Sri Sakes)
- Folio 90 verso: photograph of Anisoptera species of tree (Wan Tok Sae, near Ubol, Thailand)
- Folio 90a: empty Air Mail Par Avion envelope [loose item]
- Folio 90b: ticket issued by the Rom Sri Thong Hotel, Lampang, Thailand [loose item]
- Folio 90c: ticket issued by the Tak Hotel [loose item]
- Folio 90d-90h: itemised bills (in Thai language) for items purchased, possibly at a hotel, café, or restaurant [5 loose items]
- Folio 91 recto: photograph of a waterfall (Nam Tok Sae)
- Folio 91 verso: photograph of a ficus plant at Wan Tok Sae, near Ubol, Thailand
- Folio 92 recto: colour photograph of wooden Thai royal barges
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Private Papers
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002291215
036-002291216
040-002291285 - Is part of:
- Mss Eur F252 : Papers of Sir Harry Champion, Indian Forest Service 1912-40; Professor of Forestry, Oxford 1940-59
Mss Eur F252/1-80 : Diaries
Mss Eur F252/65 : Fifth World Forestry Congress at Seattle, Washington, August-September 1960 and a visit to Thailand - Hierarchy:
- 032-002291215[0001]/036-002291216[0069]/040-002291285
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Mss Eur F252
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume and 103 photographs
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Thai - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1960
- End Date:
- 1960
- Date Range:
- Aug 1960-Nov 1960
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliated: 92 folios
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)