EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson (1867) [L0056137]

1867 Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam

A view of Saigon from 1867, recorded by John Thomson as the city developed under French colonial rule in the years following the Treaty of Saigon, which ceded the territory to France.

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