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Procedure:
Examine the photographic process used.
Daguerreotype: Shiny or mirror image
"likeness" reversed image (writing will be
backwards Surface unstable, easily marred.
1839-1856
Talbotype, Inexpensive, purplish- 1841-1855
Calotype brown paper Easily reproduced
Fades easily
Ferrotype Black surface of sheet- 1855-1874 Tintype
iron, metal, copper. Often mounted on tomb-
stones. Especially popular during Civil War be
cause they could be mailed easily
Ambrotype Paper photograph Gold-toned image. Made with
glass negatives and collodion. Retouched from
1867 on Name of photographer.
(1848-1880)'s Carte de visite, Cabinet photo
graph.
Celluloid Made Eastman a leader c. 1887 on in the field
with Kodak
* Cut-off dates are not exact, one process may be used by specific photographers long after another process had become popular.
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