French banker Albert Kahn started the project in 1908 with the goal to photograph humanity around the world.
The project continued until 1931, with Kahn hiring 12 professional photographers to travel to 50 countries.
Since 1990, the Albert Kahn Museum has administered the collection.
A flower seller in Paris, France (1918)
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Fayz Bey el Azm, a companion of Emir Faisal, in Quweira, Arabia (present-day Jordan) (1918)
Buddhist lama in Beijing, China (1913)
France Front line trench at Le Hamel, Picardy (1915)
Market scene in Krusevac, Serbia (1913)
A young woman splitting the betel leaf during the first phase of making a quid of betel in Hà-nôi, Tonkin, Indochina (1916)
Young Kurdish women in Mar Yakoub, Iraq (1927)
Flower vendors for worshipers near Golden Temple of Sikhs in Amritsar, India (1914)
A young carpet weaver in front of her loom in Algiers, Algeria (1909 or 1910)
Senegalese sniper in Fez, Morocco (1913)
