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EU: River-bridge, Saigon (1867)
1867 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
A bridge spanning a river in Saigon, photographed in 1867 by John Thomson during his tour of French Cochinchina, a period when the city's waterways were central to trade, transport, and daily life in the growing colonial port.
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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)
