EU: North Saigon on river Mekong (1866) through time

EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, (L0055789) (1866) 1866 John Thomson captured this view of Saigon, the capital of French Cochin China, during his 1866 travels through the region.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, (L0055788) (1866) 1866 This 1866 photograph of Saigon by John Thomson, held in the Wellcome Collection, predates the larger body of work he made in the city the following year, together forming an early photographic record of colonial Cochinchina.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, - (1866) 1866 Taken in Saigon in 1866 by Scottish photographer John Thomson, this image forms part of a body of work later used to illustrate his accounts of travel through Cochinchina and Cambodia. The photograph survives in the Wellcome Collection under the reference L0055789.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China, Vietnam. Photograph by John Thomson (L0055789) (1866) 1866 One of several images John Thomson made in Saigon in 1866, this photograph is held in the Wellcome Collection under the reference L0055789. Thomson's Cochinchina work is regarded as among the earliest sustained photographic documentation of the region.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China, Vietnam. Photograph by John Thomson (L0055788) (1866) 1866 This 1866 Saigon photograph, catalogued by the Wellcome Collection as L0055788, was taken by John Thomson during a journey through French Cochinchina that also took him to Cambodia's Angkor temples the following year.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China, Vietnam. Photograph by John Thomson, (street scene) (1866) 1866 Scottish photographer John Thomson captured this street scene in Saigon during his 1866 tour of Cochin China, part of an early photographic survey of colonial Vietnam under French rule.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, building under construction [neg 573] (1866) 1866 A building under construction along the Saigon waterfront, photographed by John Thomson in 1866 during his documentation of Cochin China under early French colonial administration.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson [neg 1085a] (1866) 1866 One of John Thomson's 1866 photographs of Saigon, taken as part of his broader survey of Cochin China and the wider region that later became French Indochina.

EU: North Saigon on river Mekong (1866) 1866 This 1866 photograph looks over the northern part of Saigon along the Mekong river system, taken by John Thomson during his wider documentation of Cochin China in the early years of French colonial administration.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China, Vietnam. Photograph by John Thomson, [L0055789] (1866) 1866 This 1866 image, catalogued as L0055789, forms part of John Thomson's photographic survey of Saigon, made in the early years of French administration over Cochin China.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China, Vietnam. Photograph by John Thomson, [L0055788] (1866) 1866 John Thomson photographed Saigon in 1866, not long after the city became the seat of French colonial government in Cochin China; this frame is catalogued as L0055788.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson (L0055789) (1866) 1866 Part of John Thomson's 1866 survey of Cochin China, this photograph of Saigon is one of the earliest sustained photographic records of Vietnam under French rule, catalogued as L0055789.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson (L0055788) (1866) 1866 Taken during John Thomson's travels through French Cochin China, this 1866 photograph of Saigon is held under catalogue reference L0055788, part of his broader visual survey of the city and its people.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, [yk8jz2nz] (1866) 1866 John Thomson's camera recorded this scene in Saigon in 1866, catalogued as yk8jz2nz, during the early period of French rule over Cochin China, when the city was being remade as the colonial capital.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1866 - (1866) 1866 John Thomson's 1866 photograph looks down a tree-lined Saigon street toward an arcaded colonial building with iron balconies, a tobacco shop sign visible beside a figure standing at the roadside.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1866 - (1866) 1866 A companion glass-plate view of the same colonial street in Saigon, labeled 'Cafe Saigon' along its edge, showing the arcaded building and avenue of young trees photographed by John Thomson in 1866.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China, Vietnam. Photograph by John Thomson, [L0055788] 1866 Taken in 1866 by the pioneering Scottish photographer John Thomson, this image documents Saigon during the early years of French colonial rule in Cochin China.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, (L0056133) (1867) 1867 This 1867 photograph by John Thomson shows the Saigon riverfront in French Cochin China, a hub for river trade and transport.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, (L0056137) (1867) 1867 John Thomson's 1867 photograph documents another view of Saigon, the capital of French Cochin China, along the river.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, (L0056139) (1867) 1867 A cluster of riverside dwellings in Saigon, recorded by John Thomson's camera in 1867.

EU: Saigon, Vietnam. Photograph by John Thomson, (L0056517) (1867) 1867 This 1867 photograph of Saigon by John Thomson survives today in the Wellcome Collection, part of a set of images documenting the city under French colonial administration in Cochinchina, southern Vietnam.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, - (1867) 1867 Held in the Wellcome Collection as L0056133, this 1867 photograph of Saigon was taken by John Thomson, whose travels through East and Southeast Asia produced one of the largest photographic records of the region from the 1860s.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, - (1867) 1867 This Saigon photograph from 1867, catalogued as L0056139 in the Wellcome Collection, was made by John Thomson during his documentation of French Cochinchina.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, - (1867) 1867 John Thomson's 1867 photograph of Saigon, numbered L0056137 in the Wellcome Collection, records the city during the first decade of French colonial rule over southern Vietnam.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China, Vietnam. Photograph by John Thomson (L0055838) (1867) 1867 This 1867 Saigon photograph, catalogued as L0055838 in the Wellcome Collection, was taken by John Thomson during his travels through French colonial Cochinchina.

EU: Saigon, Vietnam. Photograph by John Thomson, (harbour view) (1867) 1867 A harbour view of Saigon photographed by John Thomson in 1867, during his travels through French Cochin China. The waterway pictured served as the city's principal artery for trade, connecting it to the wider Mekong Delta.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, (riverfront with boats) (1867) 1867 Boats along the Saigon riverfront, photographed by John Thomson in 1867. The Scottish photographer documented the city, then part of French Cochin China, during a broader tour of East and Southeast Asia.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China, Vietnam. Photograph by John Thomson, (riverside path) (1867) 1867 A path along the river at Saigon, captured by John Thomson's camera in 1867. Thomson's Cochin China images form part of his wider documentation of Asia during the 1860s and 1870s.

EU: River bridge, Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam] [neg 557] (1867) 1867 A bridge spanning a river at Saigon, photographed in 1867 by John Thomson as part of his documentation of French Cochin China. The negative number recorded with the image reflects its place within Thomson's extensive photographic archive.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson [neg 1083] (1867) 1867 A view of Saigon taken by John Thomson during his 1867 visit to French Cochin China, now southern Vietnam. Thomson's photographs from this journey are among the earliest surviving images of the city.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson [neg 1082] (1867) 1867 Another scene from Saigon recorded by John Thomson in 1867, adjacent in his negative sequence to other views of the city taken during the same visit to French Cochin China.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China, Vietnam. Photograph by John Thomson, [L0055838] (1867) 1867 Taken during John Thomson's travels through French Cochin China, this 1867 photograph of Saigon is held under catalogue reference L0055838, part of his wider visual record of the city under early colonial rule.

EU: River bridge, Saigon, Cochin China, Vietnam (1867) 1867 A river bridge in Saigon is the subject of this 1867 photograph by John Thomson, catalogued as V0037272, taken during his documentation of Cochin China under early French colonial rule.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, [L0055764] 1867 John Thomson's camera recorded this scene in Saigon in 1867, catalogued as L0055764, during the early period of French rule over Cochin China, as the city took shape as the colonial administrative center.

EU: River bridge, Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam] (V0037272) (1867) 1867 This 1867 image, reference V0037272, shows a bridge spanning a river in Saigon, photographed by John Thomson as part of his survey of French Cochin China during the early years of colonial rule.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, [nxgasaqc] (1867) 1867 Taken during John Thomson's travels through French Cochin China, this 1867 photograph of Saigon is held under catalogue reference nxgasaqc, one of many images he made of the city under early colonial rule.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, [z6jjcbwr] (1867) 1867 This 1867 view of Saigon, reference z6jjcbwr, was recorded by John Thomson as part of his broader documentation of the city and its people under early French colonial administration.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, [bguded7x] (1867) 1867 Among John Thomson's photographs of Cochin China taken in 1867, this Saigon image is catalogued as bguded7x and reflects the city's transformation under French colonial control.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1867 - (1867) 1867 Photographed by John Thomson in 1867, this view looks across the Saigon River at moored sailing junks and a large building still under construction, its timber roof frame exposed beside a tall flagpole.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1867 - (1867) 1867 In this 1867 Thomson photograph, two figures in conical hats walk a path beside a Saigon waterway lined with thatched huts and stacked firewood, palm trees rising along the far bank.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1867 - (1867) 1867 Another exposure from John Thomson's 1867 series shows the Saigon riverfront with sailing junks at anchor and the same unfinished building visible across the water, its scaffolding still standing.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1867 - (1867) 1867 This deteriorated glass negative carries a handwritten Saigon label along its edge and preserves a faint 1867 view of rooftops rising beyond dense riverside foliage, part of John Thomson's documentation of the city.

EU: River bridge, Saigon, Cochin China (1867) 1867 A bridge over the river at Saigon is shown in this 1867 photograph, taken during the early years of French colonial control in Cochin China.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China, Vietnam. Photograph by John Thomson, [L0055838] 1867 John Thomson photographed Saigon in 1867, documenting the city's waterways and structures shortly after France established its colonial administration in Cochin China.

EU: Gezicht op een graftombe in Saigon (1900) 1900 This 1900 photograph, captioned in Dutch as a view of a tomb, was taken in Saigon (present-day Ho Chi Minh City) during the era of French colonial rule over Cochinchina.

EU: Indo-Chine, Cochinchine, Saigon, Une rue, marchand ambulant (1910) 1910 A street scene in Saigon, Cochinchina, showing an itinerant vendor, photographed in 1910 during the era of French colonial rule in Indochina.