A trip back to an era when the Saigon as we know today only consisted of central District 1 and Cho Lon.
Saigon was still firmly under French occupation in the 1930s as the capital of French protectorate Cochinchina. In this collection of black-and-white photos taken by an unnamed photographer, Saigon appears like a metropolis that’s taken straight out of a fever dream: few passersby roam local streets and city corners are lined with horse-drawn carriages and rickshaws.
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