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American Handbook of the Daguerrotype

CHAPTER II
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The first is called No.

1, the second No.

2.
No.

1 is prepared by placing hydrate of lime in a bottle, say to three quarts of the hydrate of lime, add one ounce of pulverized burnt alum, and as much chloride of lime as can be put on a quarter of a dollar, and from 15 to 30 grains of dry pulverized iodine, or enough to change the color of the hydrate of lime, to the slightest possible tinge of yellow.

There had better be less than carry the color to a deeper shade.


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