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![EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, (yk8jz2nz), Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam, 1866](https://cdn.placewas.com/placewas/cbdb681282f14681b9f4aefdcf481797.jpg?width=1200)
EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, (yk8jz2nz)
1866 Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam
Saigon, present-day Ho Chi Minh City, appears here as it looked in 1866 through the lens of John Thomson, whose photographs remain among the earliest surviving images of French Cochinchina.
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![EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, (L0055789) (1866), Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), 1866](https://cdn.placewas.com/placewas/d8fe27853c8a4742935bc29d4a4cad8d.jpg?width=400)
![EU: Saigon, Cochin China, Vietnam. Photograph by John Thomson (1866) [L0055789], Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), 1866](https://cdn.placewas.com/placewas/a397cccf8cd24fd2929b53c57413a45b.jpg?width=400)
![EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, (g75utfy8), Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), 1866](https://cdn.placewas.com/placewas/a8297d77c6294ba390fcdb05aaae6b72.jpg?width=400)
![EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson (1866) [L0055789], Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), 1866](https://cdn.placewas.com/placewas/4b818b826fd9413dadeaa24373f31f2a.jpg?width=400)
![EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, (1866) [L0055789], Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), 1866](https://cdn.placewas.com/placewas/c2efb983d71b4657a9f68f2690b4250b.jpg?width=400)
![EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, (L0055788) (1866), Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), 1866](https://cdn.placewas.com/placewas/e87756ebcef7401d8dbae7800aebcd7a.jpg?width=400)
![EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, (1) (1866), Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), 1866](https://cdn.placewas.com/placewas/de6d1075b27d446a8a8fdc05f31a123c.jpg?width=400)
![EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, - (1866), Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), 1866](https://cdn.placewas.com/placewas/853287dbb29947a79429086141b2170b.jpg?width=400)