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About Antique Daguerreotype Photographs

Developed by Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre in the 1830's, the daguerreotype process involved polishing a silver plate to a mirror-like sheen, submerging it in a light-sensitive solution, and then putting it into a camera, where an image was projected onto it. The silver plate was then bathed in a salt solution and sealed between glass plates to keep from tarnishing. Daguerreotypes were eventually deemed impractical because they took so long to expose and always came out reversed from the real image.

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