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Pre-photographic

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Photomechanical

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Photogravure
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Photographic

Albumen
Ambrotype
Bromoil
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Carbon
Carbro
Chromogenic
Collodion POP
Cyanotype
Daguerreotype
Direct Carbon (Fresson)
Dye Imbibition
Gelatin Dry Plate
Gelatin POP
Gum Dichromate
Instant (Diffusion Transfer)
Instant (Dye Diffusion Transfer)
Instant (Internal Dye Diffusion Transfer)
Matte Collodion
Platinum
Salted Paper
Screen Plate
Silver Dye Bleach
Silver Gelatin DOP
Tintype
Wet Plate Collodion

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Electrophotography
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Notes on this view:

This negative features portraits of two different individuals. To save time and money, wet plate photographers offten utilized cameras manufactured with multiple lenses or a movable back or lens. Multiplying cameras allowed photographers to maximize the number of exposures made on a single wet-plate, thus lowering the cost of producing portraits. While this negative features just two exposures, extreme versions of the multiplying camera were used in the production of small tintype portraits called gems, and could make up to seventy-two portraits on a single 4x5 inch plate. In the case of this negative, the photographer would have printed these portraits on the same sheet of paper and then cut them apart to produce two separate prints.