EU: Saigon, Cochin China, Vietnam. Photograph by John Thomson (L0055788) (1866)

1866 Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam

This 1866 Saigon photograph, catalogued by the Wellcome Collection as L0055788, was taken by John Thomson during a journey through French Cochinchina that also took him to Cambodia's Angkor temples the following year.

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