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Talbotype

[tawl-buh-tahyp, tal-]
noun Photography.
  1. calotype.
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Origin of Talbotype

1840–50; W.F.H. Talbot + -type, on the model of daguerreotype
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Historical Examples

  • We hope next week to present our photographic readers with a very simple mode of preparing paper for the Talbotype process.

    Notes and Queries, Number 242, June 17, 1854

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  • The processes called Talbotype and Daguerreotype were nearly simultaneous discoveries.