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Ambrotypes 1854
Peak 1855-1860
Dwindled 1861-1866




Brothers?

Ambrotypes were much cheaper to produce, but poorer quality than daguerreotypes

Thomas Buist - photographer and family
An attempt to be naturalistic,
but they were likely to be still in a head or body clamp.


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