Members of the Van Berkel family outside a weatherboard house, Ballarat, Victoria, ca. 1890, via The Biggest Family Album in Australia, Museums Victoria Collections.
Category: vintage landscape
Bremner, Alberta
Bill McCalla putting celery into storage, Bremner, east of Edmonton, Alberta, October 1918, by William Copeland McCalla, via Provincial Archives of Alberta Commons on flickr.
Gothic manse
The Sunday porch: Mulberry, Florida
Beauvais, France
Wreaths laid in remembrance of World War I dead by the British army and navy, Beauvais, France, October 7, 1930, by Stéphane Passet, via Archives of the Planet Collection – Albert Kahn Museum /Département des Hauts-de-Seine.
This autochrome is one of about seventy-two thousand that were commissioned and then archived by Albert Kahn, a wealthy French banker and pacifist, between 1909 and 1931. Kahn sent thirteen photographers and filmmakers to fifty countries “to fix, once and for all, aspects, practices, and modes of human activity whose fatal disappearance is no longer ‘a matter of time.'”* The resulting collection is called Archives de la Planète and now resides in its own museum at Kahn’s old suburban estate at Boulogne-Billancourt, just west of Paris. Since June 2016, the archive has also been available for viewing online here.
*words of Albert Kahn, 1912. Also, the above photo (A 64 781) is © Collection Archives de la Planète – Musée Albert-Kahn and used under its terms, here.
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