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Pre-photographic

Intaglio
Planographic
Relief

Photomechanical

Collotype
Letterpress
Offset Lithography
Photogravure
Rotogravure
Woodburytype

Photographic

Albumen
Ambrotype
Bromoil
Bromoil Transfer
Carbon
Carbro
Chromogenic
Collodion POP
Cyanotype
Daguerreotype
Direct Carbon (Fresson)
Dye Imbibition
Gelatin Dry Plate
Gelatin POP
Gum Dichromate
Instant (Diffusion Transfer)
Instant (Dye Diffusion Transfer)
Instant (Internal Dye Diffusion Transfer)
Matte Collodion
Platinum
Salted Paper
Screen Plate
Silver Dye Bleach
Silver Gelatin DOP
Tintype
Wet Plate Collodion

Digital

Electrophotography
Inkjet
Thermal

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Known as a magic lantern slide, this wet plate collodion positive transparency was typically viewed by projection with a magic lantern. Slide images were created via rephotography; the existing negative was placed in a window and then photographed it to get a positive image. Lantern slides were used for a wide range of purposes including educational lectures and entertainment. Several manuals also suggest that positive transparent images could be used as decorative items displayed in windows or transparent lampshades. Lantern slides were made using a range of photographic processes including albumen, gelatin dry plate, carbon, and woodburytype. Although many considered albumen the superior process for creating finely detailed lantern slides, the wet plate collodion process had shorter exposure times. By the end of the 19th century, photographic publishers were marketing large boxed sets of collodion lantern slides for viewing. The gelatin dry plate process eventually replaced the collodion wet plate as the dominant means of producing slides.