Autochrome was the first industrial process for true colour photography. When the Lumière brothers launched it commercially in June 1907, it was a photograhic revolution - black and white came to life in colour. Autochromes consist of fine layers of microscopic grains of potato starch – dyed either red-orange, green or violet blue – combined with black carbon particles, spread over a glass plate where it is combined with a black and white photographic emulsion. All colours can be reproduced from three primary colours.
You can visit here to read more about Alber Kahn. And I think you should.
Here are some wonderful pictures of his project.
Dahomey - now Benin
Bulgaria
Canada
China
England
France
Germany
India
Iran
Lebenon
Mongolia
Morocco
Sri Lanka
USA
Vietnam
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