Old Mekong pictures

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http://www.mekongexpress.com/laos/photoalbum/lebassin_photo.htm

Page with 11 old (magnifiable) B&W pics of 'Le Bassin Du Mekong'. Three of the more interesting outtakes below:

A street in Luang Prabang, the capital city of the Kingdom bearing the same name, 3 years after the city had been ransacked by Deo Va Tri, Laos, Pavie Mission, 1890.

http://www.mekongexpress.com/laos/photoalbum/images/me017r.jpg

Mail to be delivered in Paklay and Luang Prabang is being loaded in Vientiane on a Post Service hydroplane , Laos, 1930.

http://www.mekongexpress.com/laos/photoalbum/images/me023r.jpg

The steam-powered launch of the company "Le Trentinian," offering freight and passenger services on the Vientiane-Savannakhet section, Laos, 1897.

http://www.mekongexpress.com/laos/photoalbum/images/me026r.jpg

There are also pictures of the old Khone Falls railway, which I have placed in the following thread & single post:

http://www.angkor.com/2bangkok/2bangkok/forum/showthread.php?p=14485#post14485

http://www.angkor.com/2bangkok/2bangkok/forum/showpost.php?p=14485&postcount=26

Plus a thread on a current day Mekong 'steamer':

http://www.angkor.com/2bangkok/2bangkok/forum/showthread.php?p=14484#post14484

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This seems to be the French-language site that Mekong Express got their photos from. From the linked page, there are pagetop links to B&W pictures and color prints of different subject matter:

http://www.vn.refer.org/vietn_ct/tur/mekong/

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This seems to be the French-language site that Mekong Express got their photos from. From the linked page, there are pagetop links to B&W pictures and color prints of different subject matterNot in Laos, but impressive:
http://www.vn.refer.org/vietn_ct/tur/mekong/images/8.gif
Cheval traversant le Mékong sur un "pont volant", Yunnan, 1937.

Not sure where the errors in the image come from, here it's normal:
http://www.vn.refer.org/vietn_ct/tur/mekong/photo8.htm