Cornwall, August 1913, in colour

Albert Kahn's house party, Carbis Bay

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”.

Carbis Bay

Coastal houses

Coastal church

Towednack Church

St. Ives

Church

Penzance sea front

Penzance Harbour

Penzance

Newlyn

Paul Hill, Newlyn

Newlyn

New Road, Newlyn

House in woods

Moors near Zennor

Burnt gorse

Rocks on Bodmin moor

Bodmin Moor

Rocks on Bodmin Moor

Ponies on Bodmin Moor

Gorse on Bodmin Moor

Moorland Stile

Standing stone

Moor track

Cow field

Sheep and meadow

Moorland village

Moorland farm

Farmyard

Farm worker and gate

Farm buildings

Hay cart with carter and children

Ford

Farm house near ford

Thatched cottage

Children outside a cottage

Stone cottage

Thatched moorland cottage

Thatched cottage with topiary door

Pig

Car and mine

Kynance Cove

Beach rock formation

Kynance Cove

Cave, Kynance Cove

St. Michael's Mount

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All pictures (c) Musee Albert-Kahn
For more of Albert Kahn’s images, see David Okuefuna’s “The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn“

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5 comments to Colour photographs of Cornwall, August 1913

zlaan

May 4, 2011 at 4:07 am · Reply

magnifiques photos !
Derek Thompson

May 27, 2011 at 4:00 pm · Reply

Fabulous photos! I don’t suppose there are any details of the location for each one?
Chris

May 27, 2011 at 7:06 pm · Reply

Hi Derek – I have added in the details that I am aware of.
Nicholas Storey

August 25, 2011 at 4:55 pm · Reply

As a Cornishman who lives in Rio de Janeiro, seeing these pictures made me feel very wistful and nostalgic.
Janet Bari- nee Rose

August 27, 2011 at 3:55 am · Reply

These are out standing photos. was born in PZ now live Australia, grew up among these places. The walk up Paul Hill is still very steep. Going back next year. Thank-you again for a little bit of nostalgica & happness. Janet xx