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== Description ==
 
== Description ==
  
An early photographic process for negative/positive images.  The calotype process was patented by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1841 in England.  It used a silver chloride emulsion coating on paper that was exposed to form a latent negative image that was developed with [http://cameo.mfa.org/materials/fullrecord.asp?name=gallic%20acid gallic acid] then fixed with [http://cameo.mfa.org/materials/fullrecord.asp?name=sodium%20hyposulfite sodium hyposulfite].  With contact printing, multiple positive images could be produced from each negative print.
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An early photographic process for negative/positive images.  The calotype process was patented by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1841 in England.  It used a silver chloride emulsion coating on paper that was exposed to form a latent negative image that was developed with [[gallic acid]] then fixed with [[sodium hyposulfite]].  With contact printing, multiple positive images could be produced from each negative print.
  
 
== Synonyms and Related Terms ==
 
== Synonyms and Related Terms ==

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Description

An early photographic process for negative/positive images. The calotype process was patented by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1841 in England. It used a silver chloride emulsion coating on paper that was exposed to form a latent negative image that was developed with Gallic acid then fixed with Sodium hyposulfite. With contact printing, multiple positive images could be produced from each negative print.

Synonyms and Related Terms

Talbotype

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Other Properties

Often the back of the negative was waxed prior to contact printing

Authority

  • Encyclopedia Britannica, http://www.britannica.com Comment: "calotype" [Accessed March 18, 2002]. ...invented by William Henry Fox Talbot of Great Britain in the 1830s. ......Talbot patented his process in 1841.
  • Website address 1 Comment: Preservation 101 -glossary of terms at www.nedcc.org/p101cs/terms.

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