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![EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, [z6jjcbwr], Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 1867](https://cdn.placewas.com/placewas/5b9e239d80084764a143d9aafbcd0b4a.jpg?width=1200)
EU: Saigon, Cochin China. Photograph by John Thomson, [z6jjcbwr]
1867 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
This 1867 photograph by John Thomson documents daily life in Saigon during the first years of French rule, part of the extensive visual record he made of the region.
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![EU: River bridge, Saigon, Cochin China [Vietnam] (1867), Ho Chi Minh City, 1867](https://cdn.placewas.com/placewas/af8c0d02698d4af39a9adb83d7bfd55f.jpg?width=400)
![EU: Saigon, [Vietnam]. Photograph by John Thomson, (L0056517), Ho Chi Minh City, 1867](https://cdn.placewas.com/placewas/09d1c7d0f3f04bd8a6354af1eaf78bb3.jpg?width=400)
