Cochinchina Collection

Man and woman of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), 1818. The man smokes a tobacco pipe and holds a lance, the woman wears a short tunic dress and holds a basket of fruit

Blue-winged leafbird, Chloropsis cochinchinensis (Cochinchina thrush, Turdus cochinchinensis). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Cochinchina cock and hens in a farmyard. Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmanns Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1857

Opera performance in Cochinchina (southern Vietnam). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri after Angelo Monticelli from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Paris Exhibition of 1900 - Traditional Vietnamese House
Paris Exposition of 1900 - Indochina - Traditional Vietnamese House - Pagode (Pagoda) of Phuoc-Kien at Cholon (Ho Chi Minh City) (Cochinchina - French Vietnam)

HMS Hawkins, British heavy cruiser
HMS Hawkins (D86), British heavy cruiser. Seen here at Saigon dockside with the crew lined up on deck. Date: circa 1920

Captive Elephant at the Botanical Gardens, Saigon, Vietnam circa 1906

Riverside dwellings - Cho Quan Creek, Saigon, Vietnam. circa 1906

Notre Dame Cathedral, Saigon, Vietnam
Notre Dame Cathedral, Saigon, Cochinchina (Vietnam), completed circa 1880. circa 1906

Traditional Ox wagons on the Road to Tay Ninh, Vietnam circa 1906

Vietnam - Saigon - The Chinese Creek ( Arroyo Chinois )
Vietnam - Saigon - The Mouth of the Chinese Creek ( Arroyo Chinois ) circa 1906

Vietnam - Commercial Quay, Saigon circa 1906

On the Road to Tay Ninh, Vietnam
Cochinchine / Cochinchina encompasses the southern third of Vietnam. It was a French colony from 1862 to 1954. On the Road to Tay Ninh. circa 1906

Notre Dame Cathedral, Saigon, Cochinchina (Vietnam), completed circa 1880. Date: 1910s

Sports Club building, Saigon, Cochinchina (Vietnam), Le Cercle Sportif, built 1925. Date: circa 1926

Market day, Saigon, Cochinchina (Vietnam)
Ben Thanh Market on market day, Saigon, Cochinchina (Vietnam), with hansom cabs and rickshaws. Date: circa 1910

Municipal Theatre, Saigon, Cochinchina (Vietnam)
Municipal Theatre, Rue Catinat, Saigon, Cochinchina (Vietnam). Date: 1911

French Navy cruisers, Saigon, Cochinchina (Vietnam)
French Navy cruisers near the quay at Saigon, Cochinchina (Vietnam). Date: 1906

Opera performance in Cochinchina (southern Vietnam).. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

History of the Missions, 1863. Prince of Cochinchina
HENRION, Mathieu-Richard-Auguste, Baron of (1805 - 1862). General history of the missions from the thirteenth century to the present day. 1863

Vietnamese Beauty from My To, Tien Giang Province
A delightful photographic study of a beautiful Vietnamese girl from My Tho (the capital city of Tien Giang Province, located in the Mekong Delta region of South Vietnam)

Vietnam - Guard of the Debernardi Concession
" An old acquaintance among the Cochin hunters - Guard of the Debernardi Concession". Cochin here refers to Cochinchina

French colonial troops, Salonika Front, WW1
French colonial troops on the Salonika Front during the First World War. They are a Company of Annamites, a French Colonial Marine Infantry from Cochin China (Vietnam). Date: May 1916

Town Hall Saigon - Indochina
The Town Hall - Saigon. During the French Colonisation period, most of the French settlers in Indochina were concentrated in Cochinchina (southern third of Vietnam whose principal city was Saigon)

A man and woman of Cochinchina (Vietnam). A book of national types and costumes from the early 19th century

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