EU: Gezicht op een graftombe in Saigon through time

Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) 1866–1875 12 photos of this spot

12 photographs taken at the same spot in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), spanning 1866–1875 — 12 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

Saigon, present-day Ho Chi Minh City, appears here as it looked in 1866 through the lens of John Thomson, whose photographs remain among the earliest surviving images of French Cochinchina.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, (yk8jz2nz) 1866 Saigon, present-day Ho Chi Minh City, appears here as it looked in 1866 through the lens of John Thomson, whose photographs remain among the earliest surviving images of French Cochinchina.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, (g75utfy8) 1866 This 1866 view of Saigon was made by John Thomson during his travels through French Cochinchina, part of a body of work that documented the region in its early colonial years.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson (1866) [L0055789] 1866 Scottish photographer John Thomson photographed Saigon in 1866 during his travels through French Cochin China, part of a Southeast Asian journey that also took him through Cambodia and Siam. His Vietnam images are among the earliest surviving photographs of the city.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, (nxgasaqc) 1867 John Thomson returned to Saigon in 1867, a year after his earlier visit, to continue photographing the streets and waterways of the French colonial capital of Cochinchina, in what is now southern Vietnam.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, (z6jjcbwr) 1867 This 1867 photograph of Saigon by John Thomson forms part of his wider documentation of French Cochinchina in the years following its establishment as a colony.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, (bguded7x) 1867 By 1867, when John Thomson made this photograph, Saigon had become the administrative center of French Cochinchina, in what is today southern Vietnam.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, (573) (1867) 1867 Catalogued as image 573, this 1867 view of Saigon was taken by John Thomson during his photographic tour of French Cochinchina, one of the earliest systematic photographic records of the city and its riverside setting.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, (1083) (1867) 1867 Numbered 1083 in its archival series, this 1867 photograph shows Saigon as recorded by John Thomson during his tour of French Cochinchina, when the city was still being shaped by colonial administration.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, (1082) (1867) 1867 Archived under the number 1082, this Saigon photograph dates to 1867 and was taken by John Thomson while documenting French Cochinchina, forming part of one of the earliest photographic surveys of the city.

EU: Saigon, [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, (L0056517) (1867) 1867 This 1867 photograph of Saigon, Wellcome Collection reference L0056517, is credited to John Thomson, who spent much of the 1860s photographing across China and Southeast Asia.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, (L0055838) (1867) 1867 John Thomson recorded this scene in Saigon in 1867; the plate, numbered L0055838, is now held in the Wellcome Collection's photographic archive alongside many others from his travels through French Cochinchina.

EU: Gezicht op een graftombe in Saigon 1875 This 1875 photograph, described in its original Dutch caption as a view of a tomb near Saigon, documents a burial site in the city during the French colonial period, a decade after the annexation of Cochin China.