What is a daguerreotype?
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A daguerreotype is a photography process invented by Louis Daguerre in 1837. It was the first publicly available photographic process and remained popular until the 1860s. Daguerreotypes are unique images created on a silver-plated copper sheet. The process involves exposing the plate to light in a camera, developing the latent image with mercury vapor, and fixing it with sodium thiosulfate.
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