daguerreotype meaning

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daguerreotype (noun): a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor.

Definition of daguerreotype

  1. a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor

    Type of: photograph

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