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- DictionaryDa·guerre·o·type/dəˈɡerəˌtīp/
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- 1. a photograph taken by an early photographic process employing an iodine-sensitized silvered plate and mercury vapor.
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Daguerreotype was the first publicly available photographic process; it was widely used during the 1840s and 1850s. "Daguerreotype" also refers to an image created through this process. Invented by Louis Daguerre and introduced worldwide in 1839, the daguerreotype was almost completely superseded by 1856 with new, less expensive processes, such as ambrotype (collodion process), that yield more rea... Wikipedia