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mapThe 1931 city map

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Ten years after the railway, stamped by an insurance company.

Map of Chiengmai (Chiang Mai) city, 1931. This is the capital of Chiang Mai province. The top left stamp says: "Royal Insurance Company Limited, 26 October 1931 Liverpool."Unknown author · Public domain

What it is

A large city sheet carrying the stamp of the Royal Insurance Company, dated 26 October. It is the first map on this site made after the train arrived in 1921, and it shows what the train did: the east bank built up, Tha Phae Road the commercial spine, the streets between the square and the river filled in.

The long version

Inference — an insurance company's stamp is the tell. Someone was pricing fire risk street by street, which means the streets were worth pricing, which means the money had moved off the river and onto the road.

How

Read off the sheet. It is bilingual, Thai above English, at 1:5,000. The moat is labelled คูเวียง KOO VIENG CANAL on every side. Eight gates are named: Chang Phuak, Suan Dok, Chiengmai and ประตูแสนปุง San Prung on the square, and Ta Phae, ประตูหายยา Hai Ya, ประตูขัวก้อม Kua Kom and Sakang outside it. The roads out are labelled by where they go, not by number: TO HANG DONG & CHOM THONG, TO SANKAMPANG, TO DOI SATE, TO LAMPANG, TO HUEY KEO. The teak houses have their own buildings marked, Borneo Office and Bombay Burma Office, and so do the British and French consulates. The railway station is there with RAILWAY'S LANDS, a rest house and a locomotive store beside it.

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Where each claim comes from
FieldTierSourceNote
defaultcitedWikimedia Commons — the map and photograph files, each with its own licence on its file page — Wikimedia Commons
text_thinferencewritten in Thai by this project, in the northern register where it fits; not machine-translated
text.storyinference

Sources

cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there

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