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

1867 Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam

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.

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