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A practical manual of photography : containing full and plain directions for the economical production of really good daguerreotype portraits, and every other variety of photographic pictures according to the latest improvements, also the injustice and validity of the patent considered, with suggestions for rendering a such patent a virtual dead letter, etc. (1845)

Hogg, Jabez, 1817-1899 · London : E. Mackenzie · leaf 15

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THE DAGUERREOTYPE PROCESS. CHAPTER I. … difficulties which surround it — and more than ordinary caution in selecting materials for use. The entire process is comprised in the nine distinct operations, which we shall endeavour to explain as simply as possible, at the same time entering into all necessary detail. 1. Cleaning and polishing…

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