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EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, (1867)
1867 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
John Thomson returned to Saigon in 1867, continuing the photographic survey of French Cochinchina he had begun the previous year. This image, numbered L0056133 in the Wellcome Collection, is part of that documentary record.
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