EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, (3) (1867)

1867 Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam

A third photograph from Thomson's 1867 Saigon series, showing the riverside city as France consolidated its hold on Cochin China during the earliest years of colonial administration there.

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