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

1867 Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam

John Thomson's 1867 photograph of Saigon, numbered L0056137 in the Wellcome Collection, records the city during the first decade of French colonial rule over southern Vietnam.

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