EU: Saigon, Vietnam. Photograph by John Thomson, [L0056517] (1867)

1867 Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam

Photographed in Saigon in 1867, this image, Wellcome Collection reference L0056517, is the work of John Thomson, whose Cochinchina photographs later informed his accounts of travel through the region.

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