At the firstly of the 20th Century Frenchman Albert Kahn decided to mail a grouping of photographers around the world. He wanted the photographers to capture a tape of a means of life that Khan idea was close to disappear. Between 1909 as well as 1931 Khan's photographers collected 72,000 color photographs as well as 183,000 meters of film. This imagery provides an amazing historical tape of the globe at the firstly of the 20th Century. His collection is known equally The Archives of the Planet.
The website of the Albert Khan Museum has created an interactive map which allows you lot to explore this incredible archive of 20th Century life past times location. The Collections of the Albert Khan Museum uses a Leaflet map to demonstrate where photographs inward the collection were taken as well as which allow you lot to browse the photos past times geographical location. The map includes a number of filters which besides permit you lot to search the historical pictures of the globe past times unlike themes as well as categories. These include themes such equally people, religion, nature as well as transport. You tin dismiss besides filter the photographs on the map past times the parent of the private photographers.
If you lot are a fan of vintage photography as well as thus you lot mightiness besides appreciate these other interactive maps of historical photographs:
Historypin - a huge collection of mapped vintage photos from around the world
OldSF - vintage photos of San Francisco (has Google Maps licencing issues only photos notwithstanding work)
OldNYC - quondam photographs of New York
Old Toronto - historic photos of Toronto from the City of Toronto Archives
Wymer's DC - stance images of D.C. from the John P. Wymer Photograph Collection
The Yangon Time Machine - a map of vintage photographs of Yangon, Myanmar
Smapshot - historical images of Switzerland
OldAms - thousands of vintage photographs of Amsterdam
Tids Maskinen - explore photos of Kingdom of Norway past times place & date
Helsinki Ennen - historical maps as well as photographs of the Finnish capital
Our Town Stories - Edinburgh - vintage photos & maps of the Scottish capital
Vintage Greece - geo-located vintage photographs as well as historical maps of Greece
Ajapaik - vintage photos of Estonia
