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EU: River-bridge, Saigon (John Thomson, negative 1086) (1867)
1867 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
A river bridge in Saigon, photographed by John Thomson in 1867 and recorded as negative 1086. Bridges such as this linked the growing colonial port to its surrounding waterways.
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