EU: Saigon, Cochin China, Vietnam. Photograph by John Thomson, (riverside path) (1867)

1867 Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam

A path along the river at Saigon, captured by John Thomson's camera in 1867. Thomson's Cochin China images form part of his wider documentation of Asia during the 1860s and 1870s.

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