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Light-sensitive chemicals
1Introduction to light-sensitive materials
2An Account of a method of copying Paintings upon glass, and of making Profiles, by the agency of Light upon Nitrate of Silver. Invented by T. WEDGWOOD, ESQ. With Observations by H. DAVY. (1802)
Collodion
3Collodion
Adverts for photographic chemicals
4Advertising for chemicals
Manufacturing
5The manufacture of albumen paper
Wet-plate necessities
6William Henry Jackson: Equipment required for wet-plate photography (1869)
Poisonings with photographic chemicals
7Poisonings due to availability of photographic chemicals

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