Ambrotypes:
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An
ambrotype
is a direct-image photograph on a collodion-coated
glass negative placed against a dark background
to appear as a positive image and is usually
housed in a special case. The Henry Ford has over 300
ambrotypes from the 1850s and 1860s.
The images include innovators, occupational
portraits, a few landscapes and many portraits
of ordinary Americans dressed in their best
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