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Port of Saigon (1866)
1866 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The port of Saigon in 1866, showing the waterway that served as the city's main gateway for trade in the early years of French colonial rule.
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![EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, (L0055789), Ho Chi Minh City, 1866](https://cdn.placewas.com/placewas/708c5139bea845c1b3cfa3407f7b6d6d.jpg?width=400)
![EU: Saigon, Cochin China, Vietnam. Photograph by John Thomson, [L0055789], Ho Chi Minh City, 1866](https://cdn.placewas.com/placewas/85ec1fe908eb4bd38bf0b4dcc15a11a4.jpg?width=400)
![EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, [L0055789], Ho Chi Minh City, 1866](https://cdn.placewas.com/placewas/f4ee447013ff486c992ea59d40d85671.jpg?width=400)
![EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam] - tree-lined street, John Thomson, neg. 1085 (1866), Ho Chi Minh City, 1866](https://cdn.placewas.com/placewas/b77e5a8855144530b51b0fe8d07d08a0.jpg?width=400)