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EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, (1867) A
1867 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
In 1867, Scottish photographer John Thomson recorded this scene in Saigon, capital of the French colony of Cochinchina since the early 1860s. His photographs from this trip rank among the earliest systematic photographic surveys of Vietnam.
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