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EU: Saigon, Cochin China, Vietnam. Photograph by John Thomson, (street scene) (1866)
1866 Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam
Scottish photographer John Thomson captured this street scene in Saigon during his 1866 tour of Cochin China, part of an early photographic survey of colonial Vietnam under French rule.
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