CHAPTER V.

To make Plates for the Daguerreotype--Determining the Time of Exposure
in the Camera--Instantaneous Process for Producing Daguerreotype--
Galvanizing the Daguerreotype Plate--Silvering Solution--
Daguerreotype without Mercury--Management of Chemicals--
Hints and Cautions--Electrotyping--Crayon Daguerreotypes--
Illuminated Daguerreotypes--Natural Colors in Heliography--
Multiplying Daguerreotypes on one Plate--Deposit in Gilding--
Practical Hints on the Daguerreotype, . . . 149

CHAPTER VI.

An Account of Wolcott and Johnson's Early experiments in the Daguerreotype,
. . . 188



AMERICAN HAND-BOOK of THE DAGUERREOTYPE.

CHAPTER I.

Polishing the Daguerreotype Plate--Buffing the Plate--Coating the Plate--
Exposure of the Plate in the Camera--Position--Developing the Daguerreotype--
Exposure to Mercury--Removing the Coating--Gilding or fixing the Image--
Coloring Daguerreotype.

Polishing the Daguerreotype Plate.--I shall endeavor to present to the reader
the process I have found productive of good and satisfactory results,