Editing Autochrome Lumière (section)

== Important autochrome collections ==
Between 1909 and 1931, a collection of 72,000 autochrome photographs, documenting life at the time in 50 countries around the world, was created by French banker [[Albert Kahn (banker)|Albert Kahn]]. The collection, one of the largest of its kind, is housed in The Albert Kahn Museum ([[Musée Albert-Kahn]]) on the outskirts of [[Paris]].<ref>{{cite news|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=A Philosophy in Bloom|first=Jacqueline|last=McGrath|access-date=2008-02-03|date=1997-03-30| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/30/travel/a-philosophy-in-bloom.html}}</ref> A new compilation of images from the Albert Kahn collection was published in 2008.<ref>{{cite book |last=Okefuna |first=David |year=2008 |title=The Dawn of the Color Photograph: Albert Kahn's Archives of the Planet |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-13907-4 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/dawnofcolorphoto0000okue }}</ref>
The [[National Geographic Society]] made extensive use of autochromes and other mosaic color screen plates for over twenty years. 15,000 original Autochrome plates are still preserved in the Society's archives. The collection contains unique photographs, including numerous autochromes from Paris by Auguste Léon from 1925 and by W. Robert Moore from 1936 just before WWII.{{Citation needed|date=February 2021}}

In the U.S. [[Library of Congress]]'s huge collection of American Pictorialist photographer [[Arnold Genthe]]'s work, 384 of his autochrome plates were among the holdings as of 1955.<ref>Vanderbilt, P. (compiled by), ''Guide to the Special Collections of Prints & Photographs in the Library of Congress'', the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 1955, page 63</ref>

The [[George Eastman Museum]] in Rochester, N.Y. has an extensive collection of early colour photography, including Louise Ducos Du Hauron's earliest autochrome images and materials used by the Lumière brothers.{{Citation needed|date=February 2021}}

[[Bassetlaw Museum]] in [[Retford]], Nottinghamshire holds a collection of over 700 autochromes by [[Stephen Pegler]]. This includes a collection of over 100 plates purchased by the museum in 2017 thanks to the generosity of local individuals and organisations.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bassetlawmuseum.org.uk/?page_id=1912|title=Support us – Bassetlaw Museum|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-19}}</ref> The images cover a range of subjects from still lifes, posed studies, local people and landscapes, and his travels abroad, and were taken between 1910 and the early 1930s. The Pegler collection of autochromes is thought to be the largest collection of autochromes by one photographer in Britain today.<ref>{{Cite book|title=A Colourful Past: The Autochromes of Stephen Pegler|publisher=Bassetlaw Museum|year=2010|isbn=978-0956493200}}</ref>

The Royal Horticultural Society, UK has among the earliest colour photographs of plants and gardens taken by amateur photographer William Van Sommer (1859–1941), including of RHS Garden Wisley taken around 1913.<ref name="Van-Sommer-RHS">{{cite web |title=Exhibition: William Van Sommer |url=https://www.rhs.org.uk/digital-collections/william-van-sommer |website=Royal Horticultural Society |access-date=23 June 2023}}</ref>