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EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, (1867) C
1867 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
John Thomson made this photograph in Saigon in 1867, part of a set documenting the city under early French colonial administration, only a few years after the Treaty of Saigon transferred the territory from Vietnamese to French control.
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