In 1909, French photographer Auguste Leon (1857-1942), who worked for the project “Archives of the Planet” (French: Les Archives de la Planète), visited Brazil and captured alluring color photos of the country.
Archives of the Planet was a project initiated by Albert Kahn, a French banker and philanthropist, and it aimed to create “a kind of photographic inventory of the surface of the earth, as it was occupied and organized by men at the beginning of the 20th century.” We may consider it to be an oldschool Google Maps.
Disclaimer: The photos belong to the archives of “Autochrome de Auguste Leon” © Musée Albert-Khan – Département des Hauts-de-Seine”











In the background on the left, the “Castelinho”






There is a caption mistake. The Malakof Tower is located in the city of Recife, in Pernambuco, probably a stopover for the Ship.
Ops, my bad! Thank you so much for the correction Luiz 🙂