Early 1900s in Colour

by Mike_Corso on July 30, 2010

GEORGEOUS STUFF!

In the early part of the 20th century French-Jewish capitalist Albert Kahn set about to collect a photographic record of the world, the images were held in an ‘Archive of the Planet’. Before the 1929 stock market crash he was able to amass a collection of 72,000 autochrome plates, the first industrial process for true color photography.

“Kodachrome……”

Mike

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