Wet collodion negatives

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Wet collodion negatives
Dominant glass negative process from its introduction in the United States ca. 1855 until replaced by a dry plate process in the 1880s. Its use continued for photolithographic printing plates until World War II. Distinguishable in part by creamy rather than grayish black tones and by presence of flow lines from hand coating of the emulsion.
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