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EU: North Saigon on river Mekong
1866 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
This view looks north from Saigon toward the river system that shaped trade and transport in French Cochin China during the 1860s, photographed by John Thomson in 1866.
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![EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, (L0055789), Ho Chi Minh City, 1866](https://cdn.placewas.com/placewas/708c5139bea845c1b3cfa3407f7b6d6d.jpg?width=400)
![EU: Saigon, Cochin China, Vietnam. Photograph by John Thomson, [L0055789], Ho Chi Minh City, 1866](https://cdn.placewas.com/placewas/85ec1fe908eb4bd38bf0b4dcc15a11a4.jpg?width=400)
![EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, [L0055789], Ho Chi Minh City, 1866](https://cdn.placewas.com/placewas/f4ee447013ff486c992ea59d40d85671.jpg?width=400)
![EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam] - tree-lined street, John Thomson, neg. 1085 (1866), Ho Chi Minh City, 1866](https://cdn.placewas.com/placewas/b77e5a8855144530b51b0fe8d07d08a0.jpg?width=400)
![EU: Saigon, Cochin China - Photograph by John Thomson (1866) [L0055789], Ho Chi Minh City, 1866](https://cdn.placewas.com/placewas/1e1513f9f62b4a558694b6ac904e14c4.jpg?width=400)