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![EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, (L0055789), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 1866](https://cdn.placewas.com/placewas/708c5139bea845c1b3cfa3407f7b6d6d.jpg?width=1200)
EU: Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, (L0055789)
1866 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Saigon, then the capital of French Cochin China, pictured in 1866 as part of John Thomson's early photographic survey of the region.
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![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)