EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, (1866) [L0055789]

1866 Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam

John Thomson recorded this scene in Saigon in 1866, part of a series of photographs he made while traveling through French-controlled Cochin China in the mid-1860s, a region he visited alongside expeditions to Cambodia and Siam.

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