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

1867 Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam

Held in the Wellcome Collection as L0056133, this 1867 photograph of Saigon was taken by John Thomson, whose travels through East and Southeast Asia produced one of the largest photographic records of the region from the 1860s.

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