Eric K on Nostr: "In November 1911, the French banker Albert Kahn revealed his plans for an ...

"In November 1911, the French banker Albert Kahn revealed his plans for an undertaking that was global in scale and utopian in its horizons: he aimed to document the whole of humanity, to “fix once and for all, the look, practices, and modes of human activity whose fatal disappearance is just a question of time.”
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/albert-kahns-archives-of-the-planet/
Archive digitized: https://collections.albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.fr/
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