EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1867 - (1867)

1867 Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam

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.

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