Saigon more than 200 years ago through the map exhibition
Visitors and residents can visualize the transformation of the city through images from 1799 to 1922.
From Nov. 30 to Dec. 9, 2018, Nguyen Van Binh street (District 1, HCMC) will exhibit Saigon through ancient maps and panoramas. The event featured 15 old maps (both print and hand-drawn) from 1799 to 1922.
The oldest is the map of Saigon in 1799 with detailed drawings of the citadel of the bowl, the notes of the king's palace, infirmary, gunpowder, parade square ...
Original maps of French fighting in Saigon from 1859 to 1863 were first published.
The image of Saigon in 1881 on the map was made by Mr. Farvre - the captain of the Marines. At this time, Notre Dame Cathedral was completed, right in the center of the city.
The map of Saigon in 1878 was painted in color, at which time the French occupied and gradually re-planned the city. At this point, there appeared agencies such as the governor's government (now Tran Dai Nghia school), the residence of the French, the Department of the road, the stock exchange, the officer's club ...
Map of Saigon in 1893, which is clearly annotated with locations such as the Governor General, Bishop's Court, Indigenous high school, court, railway station, Indochina bank, police station, railway going to My Tho ...
Below is a map of the city's land use. In it, blue represents the land of the military, black is the local service, pink is the land of the ...
Road maps of Saigon and surrounding areas such as Bien Hoa, Binh Duong, Long An ... in 1922 by the Indochina Geographic Publishing House.
Many visitors are interested in capturing the materials on display. "I may have seen these maps in books or online, but the size, detail and the same information was first seen," Manh said.
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Part of the exhibition introduces the panorama panorama of Saigon. The public will be able to see the wide space of the city more than 300 years old with typical buildings such as Notre Dame Cathedral, Thuong Tho, Norodom Palace, Bach Dang ...
The curved roof house is a hospital in Cho Lon area, built in 1909. The site is currently Nguyen Trai Hospital (District 5).
Picture of the ceremony at Notre Dame Cathedral. At present, the work is fenced to repair. "These photos are from my grandfather's time, and the photos make me see the life of the Saigon people hundreds of years ago." Fortunately, many of the works of the city are still intact. Uncle Le Dinh Long (65) said.
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