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  • n  a photograph made by an early photographic process; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor

  • Jos Arcadio, the founding father, all common sense when it comes to law or town design, is lured into alchemy and other esoteric sciences; he tries to use a daguerreotype .
  • A copy of the earliest known daguerreotype, a still life of a corner of Louis Daguerre's studio showing plaster Cupids heads, a bas relief and a large straw covered wine bottle .
  • By the end of the century, both David and Le Dsert were considered as out of date as a daguerreotype.
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