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![EU: Saigon, [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, (1867) [L0056517], Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 1867](https://cdn.placewas.com/placewas/c0a7d0985f154606ab94204e1a841b93.jpg?width=1200)
EU: Saigon, [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, (1867) [L0056517]
1867 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
John Thomson made this photograph of Saigon in 1867, part of his broader documentation of French Indochina during the 1860s, a body of work now held among the earliest photographic records of the region.
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![EU: River bridge, Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam] (1867), Ho Chi Minh City, 1867](https://cdn.placewas.com/placewas/af8c0d02698d4af39a9adb83d7bfd55f.jpg?width=400)
![EU: Saigon, [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, (L0056517), Ho Chi Minh City, 1867](https://cdn.placewas.com/placewas/09d1c7d0f3f04bd8a6354af1eaf78bb3.jpg?width=400)
