EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, (L0055838) (1867)

1867 Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam

John Thomson recorded this scene in Saigon in 1867; the plate, numbered L0055838, is now held in the Wellcome Collection's photographic archive alongside many others from his travels through French Cochinchina.

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