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

To make 100 sheets of albumen paper — paper coated with a solution of egg white and silver nitrate — required cracking 100 dozen eggs and separating the yolks.

From Washington Post

If one does not have an actinometer, a slip of albumen paper may be used; as soon as the paper has reached the darkest point, which is then called one tint, extend it so that a fresh portion comes out to the light, and so on for the different tints.

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

Fuming albumen paper makes it easier to print and tone.

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg