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EU: Saigon, Vietnam. Photograph by John Thomson (1867)
1867 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
By 1867, when John Thomson made this photograph, Saigon had become the capital of French Cochin China, a colony established after France's military campaigns in southern Vietnam during the early 1860s.
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