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Ambrotypes (photographs)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Photographs produced by mounting a negative (made by a variant of the wet collodion process) that is on glass with a dark backing, which makes the image appear as a positive. Came into wide use in the United States in the early 1850s.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Photographs of circus performers from the Gary Bart Collection

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 2140
Overview:

Tintypes, cabinet cards, ambrotypes, and cartes-de-visite of circus performers collected by Gary Bart.