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EU: Saigon, Cochin China, John Thomson
1867 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
A view of Saigon from John Thomson's 1867 series on Cochin China, held under catalog reference L0056133. Thomson was among the first Western photographers to systematically document the region.
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