EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, (L0055788) (1866)

1866 Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam

This 1866 photograph of Saigon by John Thomson, held in the Wellcome Collection, predates the larger body of work he made in the city the following year, together forming an early photographic record of colonial Cochinchina.

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