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Contents

Introduction
1Introduction to supply houses and supplies
Daguerreotype plates
2Daguerreotype plates
Preservers
3Preservers
Tintype plates
4Tintypes: Plates
Albumen paper
5The manufacture of albumen paper
Card stock
6The card stock used for cartes de visite, cabinet cards and mounted photographs
Chemicals
7Advertising for chemicals
8Collodion
Dry plates
9Dry plates
10Roll film
Magnesium light
11Equipment for magnesium light

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