albumen paper

American  

noun

Photography.

1. a printing paper coated with albumen, salt, and citric acid and sensitized with silver nitrate, used c1850–80.

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Example Sentences

The keeping quality of the prepared paper is remarkable; it has been kept for two years without apparent change; its sensitiveness is at least one-third greater than that of silver albumen paper.

From Photographic Reproduction Processes by Duchochois, Peter C.

Fuming albumen paper makes it easier to print and tone.

From Harper's Round Table, August 20, 1895 by Various

The gelatine papers have almost entirely taken the place of the albumen paper, a paper which was always hard for the amateur to handle.

From Harper's Round Table, August 20, 1895 by Various

I have got good results by such processes on albumen paper, the albumen tending to prevent mealiness in the print; also on paper soaked in gelatine before the application of the bichromic solution.

From Photographic Reproduction Processes by Duchochois, Peter C.

Another plan recommended, as giving a surface resembling albumen paper, is to paste the back of the print without moistening the surface, and so mount.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885 by Various