ambrotypes
- Term Type
Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Preferred Term
ambrotypes
- Details
Photographs produced by mounting a negative (made by a variant of the wet collodion process) that is on glass with a dark backing, which makes the image appear as a positive. Came into wide use in the United States in the early 1850s.
- Variations
ambrotype
collodion glass positives
collodion-glass positives
glass-collodion positives
glass positives, collodion
positives, collodion glass
positives, glass-collodion