EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, - (1866)

1866 Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam

Taken in Saigon in 1866 by Scottish photographer John Thomson, this image forms part of a body of work later used to illustrate his accounts of travel through Cochinchina and Cambodia. The photograph survives in the Wellcome Collection under the reference L0055789.

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