EU: Saigon, Cochin China, Vietnam. Photograph by John Thomson (L0055789) (1866)

1866 Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam

One of several images John Thomson made in Saigon in 1866, this photograph is held in the Wellcome Collection under the reference L0055789. Thomson's Cochinchina work is regarded as among the earliest sustained photographic documentation of the region.

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