Siam Snapshots: Life in the fields of Prachinburi in 1956

SIAM SNAPSHOTS — In these previously unpublished photos, we get a glimpse of what life was like in the Thai upcountry for rural farmers.

Using wooden carts and buffalo, they worked hard to produce the country’s rice and vegetables. These photos were taken in 1956 and show one of the harder moments of the rice harvest in Prachinburi province in January of that year.  

The first photo shows a truck getting unstuck, with the help of ten men, in the dried out rice paddies.

In the second photo, a similar truck is moving much more successfully.

Robert Rochlen was born in Bangkok on 1956. His dad worked at USIS and his family knew all kinds of interesting people. He lives in California today, but is pleased to share his family’s photo collection with Coconuts Bangkok readers.

 

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