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Title: American Handbook of the Daguerrotype

Author: Samuel D. Humphrey

Release Date: July 7, 2008 [EBook #167]

Language: English

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AMERICAN HAND BOOK

OF THE

DAGUERREOTYPE

GIVING

THE MOST APPROVED AND CONVENIENT

METHODS FOR PREPARING THE CHEMICALS, AND

THE COMBINATIONS USED IN THE ART.

CONTAINING THE

DAGUERREOTYPE, ELECTROTYPE,

AND VARIOUS OTHER PROCESSES EMPLOYED IN TAKING

HELIOGRAPHIC IMPRESSIONS.

BY

S. D. HUMPHREY

FIFTH EDITION

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY S. D. HUMPHREY

37 LISPENARD STREET

1858

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by S. D.
HUMPHREY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern
District of New York.

To J. GURNEY, WHOSE PROFESSIONAL SKILL, SCIENTIFIC ACCURACY, AND
ENERGETIC PERSEVERANCE, HAVE WON FOR HIM UNIVERSAL ESTEEM, THIS WORK IS
MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED.

PREFACE.

There is not an Amateur or practical Daguerreotypist, who has not felt
the want of a manual--Hand Book, giving concise and reliable
information for the processes, and preparations of the Agents employed
in his practice.

Since portraits by the Daguerreotype are at this time beli