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![EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1867 [neg. 1082] (1867), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 1867](https://cdn.placewas.com/placewas/952f1275f58548aba2b1b134152b7c0d.jpg?width=1200)
EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1867 [neg. 1082] (1867)
1867 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Scottish photographer John Thomson toured Cochinchina in 1867, and this view of Saigon is one of several exposures he made in the city that year, part of an early photographic survey of France's newly established colony in southern Vietnam.
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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)
