EU: Saigon, Vietnam. Photograph by John Thomson (1867) [L0056517]

1867 Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam

John Thomson's 1867 photograph of Saigon, Vietnam, taken while the city served as the capital of French Cochin China, part of the pioneering photographer's wider survey of the region in the 1860s.

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