These seldom-seen pictures are genuine colour photographs of Cornish people, towns, villages, farms, churches, moorland and coast, all taken in August 1913. None of the pictures are colourised - they are autochromes, the earliest commercially available colour photography system.
The pictures were taken by Auguste Leon, for Albert Khan, and are drawn from Albert Khan’s “Archives of the Planet” - look out for Khan’s car in picture 59.
All pictures (c) Musee Albert-Kahn. For more of Albert Kahn’s images, see David Okuefuna’s “The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn“.
