Mongolia, 1913

Albert Kahn was a French-born banker and philanthropist who amassed a collection of color photographs produced in the early 1900’s, when color photography was rare and expensive.  He used his fortune to commission individual photographers to travel to more than 50 countries around the world and capture their unique cultures on film.  Kahn’s gallery of over 72,000 autochromes remained mostly hidden until recently, when the BBC embarked on an ambitious project to bring them into the public domain.  These particular photographs were taken in Mongolia in 1913.

A hunter near Urga

A woman sentenced to starvation death

Badamdorj in vicinity of the Yellow Palace, Urga

Carriage of Stefan Passe between Kykhta and Urga

Lama

Lamas at the Yellow Palace

Married woman in Urga

Outside Urga, the capital city

Mongolian yurtas, large round tents with vertical walls and conical roofs

Street in Urga

 

Stupas, dome-shaped monuments used to house Buddhist relics, in Urga

Buddhist temple in Urga

Triumphal Gates of the Yellow Palace in Urga

Two Buryat riders in Troitskosavske

Two Cossack soldiers in Urga

Urga

 

 

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  1. Those are amazing and of course in one case disturbing.

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