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EU: North Saigon on river Mekong (1866)
1866 Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam
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.
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