EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, (573) (1867)

1867 Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam

Catalogued as image 573, this 1867 view of Saigon was taken by John Thomson during his photographic tour of French Cochinchina, one of the earliest systematic photographic records of the city and its riverside setting.

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