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EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson (1867)a
1867 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
One of John Thomson's 1867 photographs of Saigon, Cochin China, part of his broader survey of the region shortly after the French established colonial control there.
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