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 180,000 metres of b/w film and more than 72,000 autochrome plates, the first industrial process for true colour photography
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Autochrome was the first industrial process for true colour photography. When the Lumière brothers launched it commercially in June 1907, it was a photograhic revolution - black and white came to life in colour. Autochromes consist...
The big "thumbs up" is there just in case you miss the No. 1 part... ironically, this is one of the worst of the "Ghetto Chinese" genre in the neighborhood.
Washington Avenue, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn...