View on the Columbia, Cascades, 1867, Albumen silver print from glass negative, 40.0 x 52.4 cm (15 3/4 x 20 5/8 in.), Photographs, Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829–1916), Beginning in the 1850s, photographers found a way to achieve the clarity of daguerreotypes without giving up the reproducibility inherent in William Henry Fox Talbot's negative/positive photographic process: they replaced the paper negative with glass, which they coated with a thin layer of wet photosensitive collodion (guncotton dissolved in ether)
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