EU: Saigon, Cochin China, Vietnam (1866)

1866 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Saigon photographed in 1866, during the early years of French rule over Cochin China, in an image later catalogued under the negative number 1085a. The photograph dates from the same period as John Thomson's documentation of the city, when Saigon was being remade into the administrative seat of the colony.

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