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Platinum prints

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CategoryPlatinum prints
SourceLibrary of Congress Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I

Overview

Photographic prints on paper sensitized with platinum salts. Introduced commercially in 1879 as Platinotypes. Papers manufactured until World War I; revived by photographers who coat their own paper.

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