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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:unknown
Title:Dry Plates (4)
Date Made:ca. 1880
Materials:wood; metal
Place Made:unknown
Accession Number:  HC 2004.1.552
Credit Line:Robert W. Lisle History of Photography Collection, purchase of the College
Museum Collection:  Hampshire College Art Gallery

Description:
Dry plate, also known as gelatin process, is an improved type of photographic plate. It was invented by Dr. Richard L. Maddox in 1871, and by 1879 it was so well introduced that the first dry plate factory had been established.

image-making equipment; negatives

Tags:
photographic equipment; negatives

Subjects:
photographic equipment

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