Afghanistan, kaboul, Chemin de ronde de l'enceinte du Palais Royal
30 July 1928 · Kabul, Afghanistan
Archives de la Planète · 1909–1931 · Unofficial
Archives de la Planète
Albert Kahn sent camera operators across four continents to fix the world on autochrome glass before it changed. Browse 53,172 publicly viewable color photographs from the Archives de la Planète and related early Kahn journeys, each credited to the operator who made it.
A documentation project for the world
Banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn initiated the Archives de la Planète in 1909. Operators working under his commission recorded places and communities using Autochrome plates and other early color processes. Historical source terminology is preserved in the record; English labels are provided for navigation without presenting machine translation as collection metadata.
The browser combines the regional Open Data color corpus with documented public color images from related journeys, including Albert Dutertre's 1908 world trip and the 1909 South America journey associated with Auguste Léon. Black-and-white records are not included.
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View all color photographsVue générale du caravansérail des français
2 December 1919 · Sidon [Saïda], Lebanon
Grèce, Delos, L'Avenue des Processions, à droite, le Portique de Philippe V
7 July 1927 · Délos [île de], Greece
France, Panorama de Royat et Clermont Ferrand.
20110717 · Royat, France
Tour hindoue à sept étages pour lampes à huile (diya). A l'arrière-plan, peut-être un crematorium
16 December 1913 · Bombay, India
Vue de l'ancienne Banque de Suède (Riksbank)
23 August 1910 · Stockholm, Sweden
Le général Gouraud entouré de son état-major et d'une escorte de deux escadrons de cavalerie
23 January 1913 · Fès, Morocco
Des vestiges des fortifications
19-21 janvier 1914 · Peshawar, Pakistan
Navires au mouillage
10 December 1919 · Mersin, Turkey
Un caravansérail
8 October 1921 · Jdayde, Syria
Belgique, Bruxelles, Démolition de vieux quartiers.
1912 · Bruxelles, Belgium
Caravane de bœufs attelés à des chars rustiques
19 July 1913 · Oulan-Bator, Mongolia
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