Old images of Saigon, mostly from postcards, some dating to the late 19th century:

1:25—Prisoners in cangues.

1:37 and 3:03—Chinese in Saigon.

3:23—Indians in Saigon.

4:38-53—Japanese in Saigon.

5:55—Vietnamese musicians in Marseille for the Colonial Exposition of 1906 (the only image in this series outside Saigon).

6:18—Itinerant sellers of wild animal skins, including of tigers and leopards. There are some tigers left in Vietnam. Leopards are all gone.

6:30—Lasan Taberd, my elementary school, where I couldn’t finish 6^th grade because South Vietnam has been collapsed. The writer Trần Vũ, whom I've written about, went to the same school.

7:34-50—Japanese troops in Saigon during WWII.

8:28—French soldiers with Vietnamese civilian prisoners on a truck.

9:47—Newsstand selling mostly French magazines, plus a few American ones.

15:51-16:06—North Vietnamese evacuated to the South in 1954.

16:07—Nhất Linh, Vietnam’s most prominent novelist and a nationalist leader. He would commit suicide in Saigon on July 7^th, 1963. President Ngô Đình Diệm would be assassinated in a CIA-engineered coup on November 2^nd.