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Photographic prints
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Ceramic photographs
Opaline photographs
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Opalotypes
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tgm007240
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Photographs on opal (opaque white) glass; popular in the 1880s to early 1900s. Made either by transferring a carbon print onto the glass or by exposing a light-sensitive emulsion on the opal glass to a negative.
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Photographic prints
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Ceramic photographs
Opaline photographs
Opalotypes
. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 25/04/2025, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/190620
