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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
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about 1 year ago Valse said:

From the Wikipedia article on memento mori:
After the invention of photography, many people had photographs taken of recently dead family members; given the technical limitations of daguerreotype photography, this was one way to get the portrait subject to sit still.

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