EU: Saigon, Cochin China, Vietnam. Photograph by John Thomson, (neg. 1085a) (1866)

1866 Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam

John Thomson photographed this view of Saigon, Cochin China, in 1866, part of a body of work documenting Vietnam, Cambodia, and southern China that remains among the earliest photographic surveys of mainland Southeast Asia.

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