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n.- A photograph produced on a silver plate or a silver-covered copper plate which is made sensitive by the action of iodine or iodine and bromine and from which after exposure in the camera a latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury.

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  • About the same time Daguerre published his new invention of making the sun prints which were called daguerreotypes after him.
  • Daguerre, Louis J. M., photographer daguerreotypes
  • Mr. Daguerre taught Mr. Morse how to take daguerreotypes.
  • I imagine these were among the most cherished of daguerreotypes.
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