EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, (nxgasaqc)

1867 Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam

John Thomson returned to Saigon in 1867, a year after his earlier visit, to continue photographing the streets and waterways of the French colonial capital of Cochinchina, in what is now southern Vietnam.

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