EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, (neg. 1082) (1867)

1867 Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam

This 1867 photograph of Saigon, taken by John Thomson, forms part of a set of images documenting Cochin China in the years following the French conquest of southern Vietnam, when the city was rapidly being rebuilt under colonial administration.

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