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

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 Project Gutenberg