EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, [L0056133] through time

Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) 1866–1867 4 photos of this spot

4 photographs taken at the same spot in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), spanning 1866–1867 — 4 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

John Thomson recorded this scene in Saigon in 1866, part of a series of photographs he made while traveling through French-controlled Cochin China in the mid-1860s, a region he visited alongside expeditions to Cambodia and Siam.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, (1866) [L0055789] 1866 John Thomson recorded this scene in Saigon in 1866, part of a series of photographs he made while traveling through French-controlled Cochin China in the mid-1860s, a region he visited alongside expeditions to Cambodia and Siam.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, (1867) [L0056133] 1867 John Thomson's 1867 photographs of Saigon, including this view, recorded the city while it was still a relatively young French colonial capital, only a few years after France annexed the territory.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, (1867) [L0056139] 1867 This 1867 image of Saigon was made by John Thomson during his travels through French Cochin China, a region he photographed extensively in the 1860s alongside neighboring Cambodia.

EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, (1867) [L0056137] 1867 Photographed in 1867 by John Thomson, this view of Saigon dates from the early years of French colonial rule in Cochin China, when the city's port and administration were still being built up.