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The Archives of the Planet (en.wikipedia.org)

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The Archives of the Planet (French: Les archives de la planète) was a project undertaken from 1908 to 1931 to photograph human cultures around the world. It was sponsored by French banker Albert Kahn and resulted in 183,000 meters of film and 72,000 color photographs from 50 countries.

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[–] ManfredMumpitz@feddit.org 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Thank you for this. here is a link to most pf the pictures. Pretty amazing

[–] Plum@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

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