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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/85ec1fe908eb4bd38bf0b4dcc15a11a4.jpg?width=1200)
EU: Saigon, Cochin China, Vietnam. Photograph by John Thomson, [L0055789]
1866 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Another view from John Thomson's 1866 survey of Saigon, part of a series documenting the city under early French colonial administration.
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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/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)