Incase you wish to find a permanent home for these historical drawings, please consider the SE Asia Archives at the University of CA-Riverside...<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 7:53 AM, H. Leedom Lefferts <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lleffert@drew.edu">lleffert@drew.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Justin - did this get to you? resending . . . LL<br><br>Dear Colleagues –<br><br>A friend of a friend, whose grandfather took several trips to Laos in<br>
the 1940’s and ‘50’s, has given me a set of magic lantern-size color<br>slides, mounted in glass plates, approx. 1.5 x 2.5 inches. We know<br>nothing about where they came from, other than Laos, and the approximate<br>dates. The slides depict everything from a boat festival to scenes of<br>
feasting, and several war scenes, including one in which people seem to<br>be celebrating Songkhran while a battle, including airplanes, takes<br>place behind and above them. These pictures appear to be photos of<br>paintings/drawing in frames, as evidenced by borders showing around some<br>
of the edges. 3 much compressed scanned copies of the 7 larger scanned<br>pictures are attached to this message. The slides are marred by fungus.<br><br>I’d like to know if anyone knows anything about these. Are they perhaps<br>
of real scenes from the period? Does anyone know who might have done<br>them? I can send copies of the other 4 pictures if they are wanted.<br><br>Your comments, ideas, and answers are gratefully appreciated. You can<br>
talk with me off-list if you wish: <a href="mailto:LLEFFERT@drew.edu">LLEFFERT@drew.edu</a>. Thanks, Leedom<br><font color="#888888">Lefferts<br><br></font><br>_______________________________________________<br>Tlc mailing list<br>
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