The Albert Kahn Museum in France has just made available for download thousands of early autochrome photos from around the world: Kahn, a banker, had top French photographers travel the world documenting everyday aspects of global life which he believed would soon vanish as the world rapidly developed.
Such prescience.
https://www.rferl.org/a/color-photos-archive-planet-albert-kahn-history/32166970.html
@histodons #photography #autochrome
*** EDIT: The collection can be searched here, & you will have to search in French!
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