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

1867 Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam

John Thomson photographed Saigon repeatedly during his 1867 visit to French Cochinchina; this image is one of that series, part of an archive that today provides some of the earliest surviving photographic views of the city.

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